Bug 458462

Summary: texfont from texlive-context is missing lcdf-typetools dependency
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vasile Gaburici <gaburici>
Component: texliveAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: pertusus, pknirsch
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Description Vasile Gaburici 2008-08-08 16:19:36 UTC
The preferred way of installing an OpenType font for ConTeXt is using "texfont --lcdf" (see http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay/). Unfortunately, this does not work on Fedora 9's ConTeXt because lcdf-typetools are not shipped in Fedora 9, so "texfont --lcdf" fails to work properly and prints (somwhere towards the end): "sh: otftotfm: command not found".

Attempting to install a font for ConTeXt with texfont without using --lcdf also fails because pfaedit is long dead ("processing aborted : couldn't open pipe to pfaedit"). I don't know if symlinking to fontforge will work or not, but this method has clearly been deprecated for years.

Comment 1 Vasile Gaburici 2008-08-08 16:23:41 UTC
Shameless plug: you can get lcdf-typetools back in Fedora by reviewing my new package of it at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458430.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 14:16:28 UTC
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