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Description of problem: In a default /etc/ap2s.cfg for "AppendLibraryPath" one can see: /usr/local/ghostscript/fonts:/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts which is not really right in the context. As a result 'a2ps --list-options' produces: .... library path = /root/.a2ps /usr/share/a2ps/sheets /usr/share/a2ps/ps /usr/share/a2ps/encoding /usr/share/a2ps/afm /usr/share/ogonkify/afm /usr/share/a2ps/ppd /usr/share/a2ps/fonts /usr/share/ogonkify/fonts /usr/share/a2ps /usr/local/ghostscript/fonts /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts and '/usr/share/a2ps/afm/make_fonts_map.sh' does not see many useful fonts which most likely are on the system. Here is a list of various directories found with .afm files (that is what a2ps is looking for): /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/psprint/fontmetric /usr/share/a2ps/afm /usr/share/enscript /usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 /usr/share/groff/1.18.1.1/font/devps/generate /usr/share/libwmf/fonts /usr/share/ogonkify/afm /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/avantgar /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/bookman /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/courier /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/helvetic /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/ncntrsbk /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/palatino /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/symbol /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/times /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/zapfchan /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/zapfding /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/antp /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/antt /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/marvosym /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/mathpazo /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/omega /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/pl /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/pxfonts /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/qfonts /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/txfonts /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/xypic /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/avantgar /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/bookman /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/courier /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/helvetic /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/ncntrsbk /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/palatino /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/symbol /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/times /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/zapfchan /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/zapfding /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lubright /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lucida /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lucidfax /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lucsans /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lumath /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/mathplus /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/mathtime /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 Even after dropping "yandy" from that list, and possibly few others, this still leaves quite a number which look much more useful than /usr/local/ghostscript/fonts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): a2ps-4.13b-42
I am not sure about that but it seems that metrics only may be not good enough and a2ps makes a tacit assumption that a font file will be found in the same directory as its metric - which may or may not be true. Last night I rewrote myself make_fonts_map.sh script to add a font to a map file only if both some_name.afm and some_name.pf[abm] are found somewhere in a declared path (with an exception of a2ps directories on a hope that a2ps knows what it is doing; which may be too optimistic). Are you interested? Metrics only should be good enough in a case of "standard fonts". These will be provided by Postscript printers and for other ghostscript will make a substitution as needed.
I've really no idea about how that stuff works or is meant to work. :-(
Well, at least /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 instead of /usr/local/ghostscript/fonts /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts in a default configuration should give a better "standard" layout.
(changing to devel since FC3 has a2ps-4.13b-41 and has the correct paths listed.)
Problem was that the a2ps-4.13-conf.patch only touched configure but not configure.in.
Yes, this was about "devel". I listed a correct version but failed to notice in bugzilla that not that branch was showing up. OTOH my version of make_fonts_map.sh for some reasons finds on FC3 installation, and without touching anything in /etc/a2ps.cfg, thirty five more fonts than what shows up in a provided /usr/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map