Bug 707007

Summary:	Hershey fonts broken in WYSIWYG text and graphic editing programs (scribus, abiword)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Martin Langhoff <martin>
Component:	ghostscript-fonts	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	fonts-bugs, james, pbrobinson, twaugh
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Description Martin Langhoff 2011-05-23 18:05:27 UTC

Description of problem:

Hershey fonts have problems in WYSIWYG text editing programs and image manipulation programs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.fc12.noarch


How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Abiword
2.Select any of the Hershey fonts
3.Write in your document
  
- Font is unreadable
- Pressing enter does not create a newline

Other repro:

1. groupinstall Sugar Desktop
2. Login to Sugar Desktop
3. Start the 'Paint' (oficina) activity
4. Activate the text tool
5. Select hershey font
6. Click on canvas and type

- Font is unreadable
- Writing is not immediate on each keystroke -- displays only after clicking elsewhere on the canvas.

See also 

* http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=11
* http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6720240
* blacklisted in old fontconfig http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-
 cvs-commits/2005-October/msg00806.html
* OpenOffice blacklists them - but they appear on Abiword
* Scribus also has issues
http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2010-November/040145.html

Tracked by OLPC as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10902

Comment 1 James 2011-06-24 20:19:46 UTC

Still present in F15...

ghostscript-fonts-5.50-24.fc15.noarch
freetype-2.4.4-4.fc15.x86_64

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2011-10-08 22:17:39 UTC

Tim: any chance we could get the Hershey either dropped from gs-fonts or moved to a sub package where they're not default as they're problematic?

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-10-12 14:28:21 UTC

ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc16

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-10-12 14:29:00 UTC

ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15

Comment 5 Peter Robinson 2011-10-12 14:59:31 UTC

Tim: can you confirm what was done? Did you remove the fonts from the package?

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2011-10-12 15:09:49 UTC

Yes.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2011-10-13 00:50:15 UTC

Package ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14186
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2011-10-25 03:28:17 UTC

ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-05-03 07:18:49 UTC

ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.