Bug 1500105

Summary:	'gs -h' output does not include urw-base35 path
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lee Howard <faxguy>
Component:	ghostscript	Assignee:	David Kaferad // Dee'Kej <deekej>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	27	CC:	deekej, herrold, twaugh, zdohnal
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Description Lee Howard 2017-10-09 21:37:03 UTC

The ghostscript-9.20-13 package does not reference /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35 in the output of 'gs -h'.  So, how are programs that need access to the .afm files supposed to locate them without having been specifically developed with awareness of the urw-base35-fonts paths?

Also, in Ghostscript 8.64 there was a utility called "genfontmap.ps" which we have been using to generate a fontmap dump from Ghostscript.  This works as expected with ghostscript-9.20-13, but in the map it creates there are now a lot more listed fonts which are not present on the system.  There were some missing fonts before, but now there are even more.

Comment 1 David Kaferad // Dee'Kej 2017-10-12 10:33:47 UTC

Hello Lee,

sorry for late response, I was on a vacation yesterday...

Anyway, thanks for spotting that out. Looking at the ghostscript source code, it should be easily fix by adding '--with-fontpath <path>' to %configure in specfile. I will create a new version of the package today.

Comment 2 David Kaferad // Dee'Kej 2017-10-12 11:13:17 UTC

Okay, so fixing this I have just noticed that this is just a cosmetic problem. The ghostscript still works okay, even though the 'gs -h' does not show the exact 'search path' for 'urw-base35-fonts'... And that's because of this:

> Search path:
>    /usr/share/fonts/default/cmpsfont/pfb : /usr/share/fonts :

The /usr/share/fonts contains the /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35, and I suspect that Ghostscript just does a recursive search for all the search paths.

Anyway, I'm preparing the new build now. :)

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2017-10-12 14:11:11 UTC

ghostscript-9.20-14.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b765f9d358

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2017-10-13 06:25:19 UTC

ghostscript-9.20-14.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b765f9d358

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-10-17 00:15:27 UTC

ghostscript-9.20-14.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.