Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 40386
no ISO8859-2 type1 fonts from xfs font server
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:12 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: Description of problem: Although xfs is configured to load the latin2 fonts, i.e. the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1 is listed in the 'catalogue' section, fonts from this directory are not available in X. I can use fonts from all other directories, but not the mentioned fonts which I need the most. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install ISO8859-2 fonts 2.add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1 to xfs config file 3.restart xfs Actual Results: ISO8859-2 Type1 fonts unavailable, but all other fonts are OK. Expected Results: Expected to be able to use these fonts as in 6.2 Additional info: I could not find any related error messages in logfiles. Package version info: XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-5, XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts-4.0.3-5
I did not mention that I'm using a remote X terminal. There is a workaround: today I installed fonts found on the RH6.2 installation CD XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts-1.0-9 and now it works. Note: this RPM installs fonts into different directory /usr/share/fonts/..... it is necessary to modify xfs configuration accordingly.
There is one mistake made by building package, type1 font files (pfb,afm,pfm) must be plain (ungzipped), otherwise applications cannot deal with them (what's happened): remove line gzip -9 $DSTFONT/Type1/{*.pfb,afm/*.afm,pfm/*.pfm} and in section %files ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts remove last asterix to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1/*.pfb in XFree86.spec file. A quick fix for original installed package is to issue command: gzip -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1/{,afm,pfm}/*.gz Distributor can also reconsider if not to add to next distribution urw fonts with strictly latin2 encoding from ftp://ftp.suse.cz/pub/suse/czfonts/xfntscl2_1_1_0_src.rpm or ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat-cz/7.1/disks/SRPMS/SRPMS/urw-fonts-ISO8859-2 -1.0-1.src.rpm They are usefull for ex. in Staroffice because Staroffice can't use latin2 encoding with original supplied urw fonts package (which contain beside others all latin2 glyphs).
I've tested this on a freshly installed Red Hat Linux system with all updates freshly applied via up2date. I'm able to use ISO8859-2 fonts fine here with this clean installation. Running apps on this box with display on a remote X server also works, as does the reverse as well. Closing bug WORKSFORME