Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] urw-base35-fonts 20170801-3

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 1/1/2018 2:28 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 15/11/2017 19:54, Ken Brown wrote:
> > The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> >
> > * urw-base35-fonts-20170801-3
> >
> > This package contains the 35 fonts in the PostScript Level 2 Core Font
> > Set.  These fonts are used by ghostscript and xpdf.
> >
> > This release removes a workaround for an xpdf problem that has now
> > been fixed properly.
> >
> > Ken Brown
> > Cygwin's urw-base35-fonts maintainer.
>
> Hi Ken, Yaakov,
>
> The package htmldoc
> https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/htmldoc/htmldoc-1.8.28-3
>
> is expecting the old fonts to be available
> ..
> usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica.afm -> 
> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.afm
> usr/share/htmldoc/fonts/Helvetica.pfb -> 
> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb
> ..
> so currently is broken.
>
> While grace and libwmf have both a copy of the same fonts:
>
> usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019003l.afm
> usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019003l.pfb
> ..
> usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019003l.afm
> usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019003l.pfb

Hi Marco,

htmldoc and grace are both Yaakov's, so I'll let him decide how these 
should be fixed.  I can adapt to whatever he does.  libwmf is orphaned, 
but maybe it's harmless to leave it alone.  If not, I'll adopt it.

Ken

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