[plug] Re: Ghostscript (was Gnome) font problems on Debian

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi;

That should be "Ghostscript font problems ...."

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Peter F Bradshaw wrote:

> Hi;
>
> The following applies to a pretty much standard Debian 2.4 installation
> with gsfonts 6.0-2, gsfonts-x11 0.16 and libgnomeprint-* 0.35-4:
>
> I have a machine here which has been giving me grief with the fonts. It
> started when I added some font packages (deb).
>
> After I had added the fonts I found that many Gnome packages could not
> access fonts that where on the system previously and had not been
> disturbed. For instance Dia could not find any of the fonts it required
> and dropped back to "Fixed". This is despite the fact that xfontsel
> could find the fonts that Dia claimed where missing.
>
> There where some non Gnome apps which also showed problems. For instance
> xpdf failed for the lake of fonts.
>
> I fixed this problem by forcing a removal and reinstallation of gsfonts
> and gsfonts-x11. This immediately fixed the problems with Dia and the
> other Gnome and non Gnome apps. However, during the reinstallation of
> the gsfonts, the installation scripts failed. This was caused by
> gnome-font-install SEGV ing. Investigating this I found that it was
> failing on the file /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/p052004l.pfb. Moving
> this file, and its afm, out of the way allowed the scripts to run to
> completion.
>
> The situation is that now the font system appears to be working OK.
> However I find it hard to believe that there is a problem in the
> distribution with p052004l (otherwise this problem would have been
> reported long before now). I suspect that I have not fixed the real
> problem and it is still lurking down below and will eventually cause
> problems in the future.
>
> I need to button this system up if possible. I'm wondering if anybody
> else has had similar problems with fonts on this Debian release? If so
> can you offer advice or insight?
>
> Thanks
>
>

Cheers

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