forwarded 293179 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688022 reassign 293179 gsfonts stop
On 01.02.05 Hans baier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, > I use the pslatex package to print Linux Seminar courseware. This > is heavily dependent on the correct rendering of backticks. > > The backticks are rendered correctly if viewed in xdvi or PDF > generated by pdflatex, whereas they are rendered incorrectly when > using dvips. Alas, I cant switch to pslatex because I would have to > convert 2000+ pages and hundreds of images to pdflatex. This bug > concerns font pcrr7tn which is used in the pslatex-Style. The > bold-face variant works fine. > > This bug is reproducable: > > # cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base > This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) > entering extended mode > (./nfssfont.tex > LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> > Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, german, ngerman, > nohyphena > tion, loaded. > (./article.cls > Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class > (./size10.clo)) > No auxiliary output files. > > ********************************************** > * NFSS font test program version <v2.0e> > * > * Follow the instructions > ********************************************** > > > Name of the font to test = pcrr7tn > Now type a test command (\help for help):) > *\table > > *\punct > > *\bye > [1] > Output written on nfssfont.dvi (1 page, 7240 bytes). > Transcript written on nfssfont.log. > > # dvips nfssfont.dvi > # gv nfssfont.ps > > ----> WRONG! > After a private discussion we came to the conclusion, that this is a bug in the gsfonts package. xdvi uses the font ucrr8a.pfb to display the char and gs uses the font n022003l.pfb to do that. These fonts claim both to be NimbusMonL-Regu but that character (quoteleft) differs significatly in both fonts. I've forwarded that bug to upstream: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688022 and now I'm reassigning to the related Debian package. Notes: - One may use t1diff[1] to show differences of the fonts - I tried to use that tool and got a ps file unfortunately gs was not able to process it. Regards, Hilmar [1] http://www.kammer.uni-hannover.de/~reinhard/texps/t1diff/t1diff.html -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
