Bug 93840 – cjk-latex: problem with ttf2tfm

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rafał Mużyło 2005-05-24 12:31:58 UTC]

Freetype 1.3.1 (latest availble) installs ttf2tfm version 1.4,
however all cjk-latex guides about utf8 talk about using -w
option, which (after some googling) was introduced in Freetype 1.4
ttf2tfm v. 1.5. The problem is this version doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Correction: (after a lot more googling) I was able to find this version here
ftp://core.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/freetype/devel/freetype1-contrib-current.tar.gz

That would be all for now, I will try to get this version to work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2005-05-24 13:25:57 UTC]

OK, you should always first try, then post to bugzilla.
Tough luck, this version of ttf2tfm relies on structure
modifications introduced to freetype headers post-1.3.1.

This means the proper title for this bug should be like
"Add post-1.3.1 freetype1 development version to portage tree
for ttf2tfm ver. 1.5"

[Comment 2 nefercheprure 2005-08-01 14:16:13 UTC]

The absence of a post-1.3.1 freetype1 ebuild is also related to non-cjk, general
use of the ttf2tfm utility. The defects of ttf2tfm block the use of the free
Gentium font (media-fonts/ttf-gentium) in TeX.


Running:

ttf2tfm /usr/share/fonts/ttf-gentium/Gentium.ttf

results in ttf2tfm receiving SIGSEGV.

[Comment 3 Jie Luo 2005-09-16 18:28:49 UTC]

Created attachment 68628 [details]
cjk-latex-4.6.0.ebuild

[Comment 4 Jie Luo 2005-09-16 18:35:46 UTC]

Comment on attachment 68628 [details]
cjk-latex-4.6.0.ebuild

I up load this by mistake. Sorry!

[Comment 5 nefercheprure 2005-10-09 13:09:33 UTC]

Created attachment 70250 [details, diff]
patch to freetype1-contrib-current.tar.gz

The patch makes the freetype1-contrib-current.tar.gz from the location of
the first comment to this bug compile cleanly.

[Comment 6 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-02-15 06:51:17 UTC]

This is a freetype problem, so reassigning.

[Comment 7 Rafał Mużyło 2006-02-15 09:55:59 UTC]

Since at least cjk-latex 4.6.0 (which is still missing in portage) the bug is sort of invalid. Although most webpages speak only about ttf2tfm, there is a fontforge script included now (in cjk-latex) that does that job now (as mentioned in comment 3 to bug 103309).

[Comment 8 foser (RETIRED) 2006-06-20 05:47:16 UTC]

We only deal with released versions afaic. If cjk-latex has an updated version of this, then I think we should go with that. Freetype 1 is too old and unsupported to build upon.

[Comment 9 Alexis Ballier 2008-10-03 07:45:53 UTC]

freetype 1.4_pre20080316-r1 seems to be good wrt ttf2tfm, cjk-latex 4.7.0 is stable, 4.8.1 ~arch -> should be fixed now