URL:
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Summary: [grops] can't embed/download fonts from a
subdirectory
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Mon 21 Aug 2023 09:58:32 AM UTC
Category: Driver grops
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Mon 21 Aug 2023 09:58:32 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Filing on behalf of Phil Chadwick <phil.chadw...@claremont.farm>, who
[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2023-08/msg00196.html reported
it to the bug-groff list].
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I have just discovered that as of GNU grops (groff) version 1.23.0
groff no longer downloads and encodes PostScript fonts into documents.
This is the method by which I create fully self-contained PostScript
documents that can be viewed or printed anywhere (because all the fonts
are encoded within the document).
The method by which this is done is to configure access to the PostScript
fonts in the devps/download file by appending the font name and location
(relative to the devps directory), e.g.
[strand.178] $ uname -a
FreeBSD strand.my.dom 13.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC
amd64
[strand.148] $ cd /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps
[strand.149] $ cat download
# PostScript-name Filename
# These three come standard with groff
Symbol-Slanted symbolsl.pfa
ZapfDingbats-Reverse zapfdr.pfa
FreeEuro freeeuro.pfa
Dot-Matrix Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps
Thyere is also a font metrics file:
[strand.150] $ head -10 Dot-Matrix
name Dot-Matrix
internalname Dot-Matrix
spacewidth 750
encoding text.enc
charset
ha 750,803 2 0000 asciicircum
ti 750,803 2 0001 asciitilde
:Y 750,803,53 2 0006 Ydieresis
tm 750,803,303 3 0007 trademark
aq 750,803 2 0010 quotesingle
And a Postscript font:
[strand.158] $ file Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps
Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps: PostScript Type 1 font text (Dot-Matrix 1.000)
In the past a "\f[Dot-Matrix]" directive would cause groff to encode the
Dot-Matrix.ps font file into the PostScript document it produced.
[strand.487] $ cat e.nr
\f[Dot-Matrix]Hello world
[strand.488] $ groff -Tps e.nr >e.ps
grops:<standard input>:(e.nr):20: error: failed to open PostScript
resource
'Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps': No error: 0
That error message is new to groff version 1.23.0.
The font Dot-Matrix is not encoded into the output file:
[strand.142] $ grep Dot-Matrix e.ps
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Dot-Matrix
%%IncludeResource: font Dot-Matrix
/Dot-Matrix@0 ENC0/Dot-Matrix RE
/F0 10/Dot-Matrix@0 SF(Hello)72 12 Q(world)7.5 E 0 Cg EP
With GNU grops (groff) version 1.22.4, I get what I want and expect:
[sherman.134] $ grep Dot-Matrix e.ps
%%+ font Dot-Matrix
%%BeginResource: font Dot-Matrix
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Dot-Matrix 1.000
FontDirectory/Dot-Matrix known{/Dot-Matrix findfont dup/UniqueID
known{dup
/FontName /Dot-Matrix def
/Dot-Matrix@0 ENC0/Dot-Matrix RE
/F0 10/Dot-Matrix@0 SF(Hello)72 12 Q(world)3.33 E 0 Cg EP
The groff version 1.23.0 e.ps file:
- displays correctly on an X11 screen using gv, probably because
ghostscript knows where to find the pfb files for the Type 1 fonts.
- will not print correctly (the PostScript printer knows nothing about
the Dot-Matrix font), nor can I send the document to someone else to
view (because they won't have the Dot-Matrix font).
I think it's a bug. Sincerely hoping it's not a "feature".
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