Description of problem: Hershey fonts have problems in WYSIWYG text editing programs and image manipulation programs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.fc12.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Abiword 2.Select any of the Hershey fonts 3.Write in your document - Font is unreadable - Pressing enter does not create a newline Other repro: 1. groupinstall Sugar Desktop 2. Login to Sugar Desktop 3. Start the 'Paint' (oficina) activity 4. Activate the text tool 5. Select hershey font 6. Click on canvas and type - Font is unreadable - Writing is not immediate on each keystroke -- displays only after clicking elsewhere on the canvas. See also * http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=11 * http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6720240 * blacklisted in old fontconfig http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora- cvs-commits/2005-October/msg00806.html * OpenOffice blacklists them - but they appear on Abiword * Scribus also has issues http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2010-November/040145.html Tracked by OLPC as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10902
Still present in F15... ghostscript-fonts-5.50-24.fc15.noarch freetype-2.4.4-4.fc15.x86_64
Tim: any chance we could get the Hershey either dropped from gs-fonts or moved to a sub package where they're not default as they're problematic?
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc16
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15
Tim: can you confirm what was done? Did you remove the fonts from the package?
Yes.
Package ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14186 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.