Bug 505764 - file does not identify properly some pfa files shipped with a2ps
Summary: file does not identify properly some pfa files shipped with a2ps
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: a2ps
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-13 15:54 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2010-12-05 06:51 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-05 06:51:24 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2009-06-13 15:54:42 UTC
Description of problem:

file thinks the pfa files in ghostscript-fonts-5.50-22.fc12.noarch.rpm are "PostScript document text" 

They should be identified as "PostScript Type 1 font text"

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

file-5.03-2.fc12.x86_64

Full list:

 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/pcrb-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/pcrbo-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/pcrr-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/pcrro-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/phvb-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/phvbo-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/phvr-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/phvro-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/ptmb-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/ptmbi-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/ptmr-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm
 ./usr/share/ogonkify/fonts/ptmri-o.pfa	PostScript document text	a2ps-4.14-8.fc11.x86_64.rpm

Comment 1 Daniel Novotny 2009-06-15 10:37:06 UTC
Adobe fonts, to be properly identified as fonts, have to have the right header, for example %!PS-AdobeFont-1.1 

The files you list have just "%!" header, which identifies them as generic PostScript files

so file does nothing wrong: without the proper header it cannot tell you anything

closing this: the files were created by ogonkify, so you can reassign this to this component, if you think ogonkify should generate the files with the header

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 11:07:27 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:51:24 UTC
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