621100 – media-fonts/urw-fonts: Change to TTF fonts or add separate URW TTF ebuild?

Bug 621100 - media-fonts/urw-fonts: Change to TTF fonts or add separate URW TTF ebuild?

Summary: media-fonts/urw-fonts: Change to TTF fonts or add separate URW TTF ebuild?

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 589890

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team

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Reported:	2017-06-07 08:56 UTC by Klaus Kusche
Modified:	2023-10-09 14:39 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:	589890
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Description Klaus Kusche 2017-06-07 08:56:37 UTC

As libreoffice no longer supports fonts in Type1 format,
Gentoo's URW fonts cannot be used in libreoffice any longer,
because Gentoo only provides Type1 URW fonts.

TTF (and even OTF) ports of the URW fonts exist
(e.g. http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk/ghostpdl/urwfonts/)
and are provided as a separate package in many linux distributions.

Please replace the fonts in urw-fonts by their TTF versions
or provide a separate URW TTF package, 
it is needed for libreoffice documents containing URW fonts!

Comment 1 Siuchung Cheung (Clement) 2023-03-24 03:11:22 UTC

URW OTF font ebuild:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/589890#c9

Comment 2 Klaus Kusche 2023-05-01 10:00:48 UTC

Ping?

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2023-10-09 14:39:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 589890 ***