[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#495598: [ghostscript] opentypefont

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> owner 496070 !
> block 495598 by 496070
> thanks
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> Am 07.02.2011 19:03, schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES:
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>> Nevertheless could you explain why you need opentype fonts?
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> My main motivation back then was that cups needs a replacement for the
> Courier font in order to print plain text (#516335) and this font needs to
> be in truetype (not opentype) format. The cups maintainers decided for
> ttf-freefont exclusively (#495598), although I think this was a bad choice
> and prefer ttf-liberation or the original gsfonts instead. The latter,
> however, are only available in type1 format and this I why I asked to make
> them available in truetype format as well.

It seems that freebsd have converted their fonts to ttf see
http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/x11-fonts/urwfonts-ttf.html

And it seems that these fonts have also some fontforge source see also
another bug report.

BTW do you care to co maintian this package  ?

Bastien


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