Bug 178390 - Ghostscript lacking of scalable fonts
Summary: Ghostscript lacking of scalable fonts
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ghostscript-fonts
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-20 00:38 UTC by Nathan Plamer
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-19 18:48:32 UTC
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Description Nathan Plamer 2006-01-20 00:38:25 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Description of problem:
When I scaled my xfig graph under our new Linux Enterprise sytem, I found the Greek fonts didn't scale exactly as the boxes enclosing them.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a figure in xFig containg Greek characters
2. Enclose them in boxes
3. Scale the figure

Actual Results:  The fonts scale differently than the boxea

Expected Results:  They should scale at the same rate.

Additional info:

The author of xfig pointed out that it was caused by lacking of scalable fonts, and suggested me to install Ghostscript fonts. After did so and added font path by "xset +fp my_gs_fonts_dir", the scaling problem went away, but new problem came -- the Greek characters were shifted by 97-65=32 (A becomes a) on the display ( using X server).

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2006-01-23 12:22:44 UTC
Which fonts did you install?

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 18:48:32 UTC
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
 
If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your
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information on how this bug is affecting you.


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