Re: URW font download link not valid

[Jean Louis]

* Dale Snell <address@hidden> [2019-08-10 04:28]:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 3:41 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> >
> > configure:
> >   No URW fonts in .pfb format were found on your system, URW fonts
> >   generation for 'devpdf' will not work properly.  These fonts can be
> >   downloaded here:
> >
> >     http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/fonts/urw-base35-v1.10.zip
> >
> > Configure is complaining. But urw fonts are not at that link.
> >
> > I am using git groff latest. Maybe it has to be updated to proper link.
> 
> The base-35 fonts are no longer maintained on the Artifex Software /
> Ghostscript web site.  Nor are they on the URW++ web site.  Rather,
> they are on Github.  There are two web pages:
> 
>     https://github.com/URWTypeFoundry/Core_35
> 
> and
> 
>     https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts
> 
> The URW++ page has version 2.00 of the base-35 fonts, dated 2016.  The
> Artifex page has the same fonts, but with some bug fixes, and is dated
> 2017.  It also has the current fontconfig configuration files, so
> that's probably what I'd download.
> 
> That said, the error you're getting from configure almost certainly
> has a different source.  The files are very likely on your system
> already, but the names have been changed.  The original, very cryptic
> file names have been changed to more readable names.  (Well, mostly.)
> Alas, configure is still looking for the original filenames.
> Actually, it's only looking for one file; one of the Gothic fonts, if
> I recall correctly.  The URW base-35 fonts should be in your system
> fonts directory.  Something like
> 
>     /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35
> 
> (which is where it is on my Fedora 29 system). In that directory, make
> a symbolic link from URWGothic-Book.t1 to a010013l.pfb.  Configure
> should be able to find the URW fonts that way.
> 
> I went through much the same thing some months back, and I'm writing
> this from my admittedly imperfect memory.  I'd suggest checking the
> Groff mailing list archives for the emails about the problems I had.
> Scrolling back through my Gmail list, I see that it was in March of
> this year.  If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to post
> them.
> 
> I hope this helps.

I found that I have package `gsfonts' and that fonts are liste as
following below, please confirm if these fonts are those we are
speaking about?

I will try now using following configure:

./configure --prefix /package/text/groff 
--with-urw-fonts-dir=/usr/share/fonts/OTF/

And will file a bug for my GNU/Linux distribution
 https://www.hyperbola.info on missing fonts
 
 gsfonts /usr/
 gsfonts /usr/share/
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/C059-BdIta.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/C059-Bold.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/C059-Italic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/C059-Roman.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/D050000L.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusMonoPS-Italic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusMonoPS-Regular.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusRoman-Bold.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusRoman-BoldItalic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusRoman-Italic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusRoman-Regular.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSans-Bold.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSans-BoldOblique.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSans-Oblique.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSans-Regular.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSansNarrow-BdOblique.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSansNarrow-Bold.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSansNarrow-Oblique.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/NimbusSansNarrow-Regular.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/P052-Bold.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/P052-BoldItalic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/P052-Italic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/P052-Roman.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/StandardSymbolsPS.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWBookman-Demi.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWBookman-DemiItalic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWBookman-Light.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWBookman-LightItalic.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWGothic-Book.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWGothic-BookOblique.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWGothic-Demi.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/URWGothic-DemiOblique.otf
 gsfonts /usr/share/fonts/OTF/Z003-MediumItalic.otf