Re: ghostscript/fontconfig issues, freetype

[Rajesh Balakrishnan <rajesh_balakrishnan at yahoo dot com>]

--- Bertalan Fodor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've found the following bugs/issues about the ghostscript and 
> fontconfig packages and their cooperation:
> - fontconfig segfaults with old fonts in ghostscript (hr*), because they 
> are buggy. AFAIK other ghostscript distributions do not contain them for 
> the same reason.
> - fontconfig's /etc/fonts/local.conf should contain the <dir> tag for 
> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts, to enable fontconfig-aware applications to 
> use them. So gs and font-config should play together.
> 
> I think these two issues are to be solved by the maintainers of 
> fontconfig and ghostscript.

Hi,

I shall look at how the other ghostscript distributions handle
the Hershey fonts.  SuSE fonts-config blacklists these fonts.

Another quick check points to freetype2.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2003-10/msg00035.html
We have 2.1.5 in cygwin (Sep 2003), current freetype version is 2.1.9.

Can freetype2 be upgraded to 2.1.9?

Regards,
rb



		
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