Created attachment 1750496 [details] Basic Hebrew document Description of problem: On a clean Fedora 33 after installing texlive, babel-hebrew, and tex-fonts-hebrew, I can't use pdflatex to render a Hebrew document. Detailed steps to reproduce and a possible fix are provided below. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive 9:2020-34.fc33 texlive-babel-hebrew 9:svn30273.2.3h-34.fc33 tex-fonts-hebrew 0.1-33.fc33 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a new Fedora 33 container: podman run -it fedora:33 2. dnf install texlive texlive-babel-hebrew tex-fonts-hebrew 3. Try to render hello.tex document attached to this bug report (this is a basic Hebrew document). \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel} \begin{document} שלום! \end{document} Actual results: We get the following error message: !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file rdavid): Font rdavid at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Full log is at first.log. Expected results: Document is rendered :) Additional info: We need two steps to resolve the problem here. I'm not sure if these steps are the idiomatic way to fix the issue, but it worked for me... The first issue that that culmus.map is not included in the pdflatex.map, even though culmus.map is enabled in /etc/texlive/web2c/updmap.cfg. I was able to solve it with - updmap-sys --syncwithtrees - updmap-sys to recreate the map file. It would be nice the Culmus will do this by default as part of the installation. (Another temporary per-document solution is to add \pdfmapfile{culmus.map} to the Hebrew document.) Now if we re-run pdflatex we get a new error: !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file DavidCLM-Medium.pfa): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! The full log is in second.log. There are multiple ways around this problem: 1. Note that /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/ has a broken symlink to culmus. Even if we fix the symlink to point to /usr/share/fonts/culmus/, it doesn't work because pdflatex doesn't seem to follow directory symlinks. But if we actually create a directory and symlink fonts individually, it will work, like this: mkdir /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/culmus2 for i in /usr/share/fonts/culmus/*; do ln $i /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/culmus2/${i##*/}; done 2. A more "general" fix is to edit /etc/texlive/web2c/texmf.cnf instead and set OSFONTDIR to /usr/share/fonts/, but it seems like this change extends beyond Culmus so I'm not sure how practical is it to edit OSFONTDIR as part of installation. After building the map file and teaching latex to find Type1 Culmus fonts the Hebrew document can compile successfully. I hope that it will be possible to adjust the Culmus package so that Hebrew latex works out of the box. Thanks! I'm available for questions and clarifications.
Created attachment 1750497 [details] first.log
Created attachment 1750498 [details] second.log
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
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Please note culmus-fonts have dropped bitmpa-fonts now and only opentype fonts are packages. Do check this bug against F35 and report fresh bug if exists
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