Hi,
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 12-03-01 at 08:54am, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>> In general, I think useless dangling symlinks are a bug even if they
>> don't cause tangible harm, just as for example documentation reference
>> to a feature that no longer exists would be a bug. They impede
>> administrators' (and developers') understanding of the package.
>
> I agree with you that it is a bug (even by Policy IIRC).
Not in policy ยง10.5 "symbolic links", as least.
Maybe this could be addressed by adding some documentation, e.g. in
README.Debian:
Ghostscript uses the DroidSansFallback font from the fonts-droid
package to substitute for CID-keyed fonts that are not available
(used for East Asian character sets in PDFs). If disk space is
scarce, remove the fonts-droid package and the glyphs from
missing fonts will be rendered as bullets.
See Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution from the ghostscript-doc package
for details.
and in the package description:
.
By default, Ghostscript uses a font from the fonts-droid package
to approximate glyphs in PDFs for which the requested CJK
TrueType font is missing. If the fonts-droid package is not
installed, these glyphs will be rendered as bullets.
Background:
| commit 18a51701
| Author: Chris Liddell <chris.lidd...@artifex.com>
| Date: Tue Dec 13 11:46:53 2011 +0000
|
| Bug 690779: Provide fallback for missing CIDFonts in PDF
|
| Rather than throw an error when a PDF references a CIDFont that is not
| available, we'll now fall back to using DroidSansFallback.ttf, by default.
|
| This gives a reasonable analogue of other PDF consumers' behavior.
What would happen if the symlink were removed and the following patch
applied?
gs/Resource/Init/gs_cidfm.ps | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git i/gs/Resource/Init/gs_cidfm.ps w/gs/Resource/Init/gs_cidfm.ps
index 3f0a2076..68143909 100644
--- i/gs/Resource/Init/gs_cidfm.ps
+++ w/gs/Resource/Init/gs_cidfm.ps
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ currentdict end def
(/) concatstrings
}
{
- currentsystemparams /GenericResourceDir get (CIDFSubst/) concatstrings
+ (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/)
} ifelse
} ifelse
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