ghostscript installs fonts from the media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.6. I think it might be easier to leave ghostscript to install the whole font bundle and just block media-fonts/urw-fonts. But, probably cleaner approach would be to depend on media-fonts/urw-fonts and fix the font paths for ghostscript. # cd /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts # for f in *.pfb; do ls /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/$f; done /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/a010013l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/a010015l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/a010033l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/a010035l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/b018012l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/b018015l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/b018032l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/b018035l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/c059013l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/c059016l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/c059033l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/c059036l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/d050000l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019003l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019023l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019024l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019043l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019044l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019063l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019064l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021003l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021023l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021024l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022003l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022023l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022024l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/p052003l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/p052004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/p052023l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/p052024l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/s050000l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/z003034l.pfb # So no extra fonts are provided by urw-fonts package. See also bugs #256087, #256084 and #256086.
A couple of the fonts in gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 are defective and cause problems in pdf viewers based on poppler, see bug #276588. The urw-fonts are the better choice.
The newest revision of ghostscript-gpl depends on urw-fonts instead of gnu-gs-fonts-std and installs the symlink it needs, so we just need everything to go stable and we can close this bug.
I just had a look into the README associated with gnu-gs-fonts-std and see: <quote> This is release 1.0.7pre22 of Valek Filippov's improved versions of the URW type 1 font collection, repackaged for distribution with Ghostscript. Cyrillized free URW fonts. These fonts were made from the free URW fonts distributed with ghostcript. There are NO changes in the latin part of them (I hope). Cyrillic glyphs were added by copying suitable latin ones and painting outlines of unique cyrillic glyphs in same style as the others. For all modification pfaedit was used. </quote> If the goal is to drop media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std package and keep only URW++ fonts whether the improvements to cyrillic will be lost. Personally, I don't care about cyrillic. Just a note from me.
The same note is in the README file in the urw-fonts packages, I guess it was added in some later version (urw-fonts is version 1.0.7pre44), so no improvements to Cyrillic are lost.
After upgrading ghostscript-gpl to 8.71-r3 with urw-fonts instead of gnu-gs-fonts-std, I no longer can view any PostScript files with gs! (actually, I use gv, but this does not matter). I always get errors like GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. Another related problem: emerging, e.g., sci-mathematics/ginac fails. From the log: Running /usr/bin/fig2dev -L png classhierarchy.fig classhierarchy.png... Error: /invalidfont in /findfont Operand stack: --nostringval-- Courier-Bold Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %s topped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_p ush 1862 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1739 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop . runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nos tringval-- 1820 2 4 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:1158/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:105/200(L)-- --dict:35/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Error in ghostcript command command was: gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=png16m -r80 -g533x294 -sOutputFile=classhierarchy.png
(In reply to comment #5) > After upgrading ghostscript-gpl to 8.71-r3 with urw-fonts instead of > gnu-gs-fonts-std, I no longer can view any PostScript files with gs! (actually, > I use gv, but this does not matter). I always get errors like > [snip] Please see bug 311923, try some workarounds proposed there and if nothing works please attach a testcase. Thanks.
Created attachment 227353 [details] a random file from arxiv.org Any file from arxiv.org (the main source of information for physicists). Another reproducible example: I cannot emerge ginac with USE=doc. It seems that after the recent upgrade ghostscript-gpl has become useless :-(
xfig fails to install as of a couple of days ago, and i believe the subject of this bug report is the reason: # emerge -a xfig These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.9 USE="X" [ebuild N ] media-gfx/xfig-3.2.5b [blocks B ] media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std ("media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std" is blocking media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.9) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('ebuild', '/', 'media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.9', 'merge') pulled in by media-fonts/urw-fonts required by ('ebuild', '/', 'media-gfx/xfig-3.2.5b', 'merge') ('installed', '/', 'media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11', 'nomerge') pulled in by media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std required by ('installed', '/', 'app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.71-r1', 'nomerge')
I do not know what has changed, but "emerge xfig" now works.
Well... a blocker between the packages is in place, and Ghostscript is one major version further. Time to resolve this.
