Hi,
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 wi
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #64577 (project groff):
Thank you for your very prompt attention.
I have confirmed that if the postscript font to be downloaded is in the devps
directory (and I modify the download file to reflect that), groff works
correctly.
If I set the GROFF_FONT_PATH to the directo
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #64577 (project groff):
Deri's comment #4 makes the environment variable work:
[strand.144] $ grep -i groff $HOME/.profile
groff_fp=/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1Fonts/devps
[ -d "$groff_fp" ] && GROFF_FONT_PATH="$groff_fp" && export GROFF_FONT_PATH
[strand.145] $ ls -lad
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #64577 (project groff):
I just realised that GROFF_FONT_PATH needs to contain a directory called
devps. What I did worked because of the circular sym link to devps, but a
better setting is:
GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1Fonts
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Follow-up Comment #11, bug #64577 (project groff):
I decided to tidy up the Type 1 fonts and put them all the pfa, pfb, and ps
files into /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1, which is where X11 (and numerous
other applications) expect to find them.
[These path names are FreeBSD specific, but Linux will
Follow-up Comment #13, bug #64577 (project groff):
[comment #12 comment #12:]
> I'm starting to think a new environment variable, _GROFF_RESOURCE_PATH_,
might be necessary to handle the sorts of file system objects that _grops_ and
_gropdf_ (and _only_ these output drivers, as far as I know), some
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #64612 (project groff):
I think what you are saying is that the groff-specific font metric files (e.g.
"desc/TR") should remain where they have always been. Agreed -- they are
specific to groff, and there is no need to change the current system.
The Type 1 fonts (.pfa,
