[bug #64577] [grops] can't embed/download fonts from a subdirectory

[Phil Chadwick]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #64577 (project groff):

Thank you for your very prompt attention.

I have confirmed that if the postscript font to be downloaded is in the devps
directory (and I modify the download file to reflect that), groff works
correctly.

If I set the GROFF_FONT_PATH to the directory where the postscript font files
normally reside, groff reports an error:


[strand.202] $ export GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1Fonts
[strand.203] $ groff -F $GROFF_FONT_PATH -Tps e.nr >/dev/null
grops:<standard input>:19: error: failed to open PostScript resource
'Dot-Matrix.ps': No such file or directory
[strand.204] $ ls -lad $GROFF_FONT_PATH/*Matrix*
-rw-r--r--  1 bin  bin  333921 Aug 29  1998
/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1Fonts/Dot-Matrix.ps
[strand.207] $ grep Matrix download
Dot-Matrix      Dot-Matrix.ps

My PostScript fonts are used by multiple applications.  They are not the
exclusive property of groff, and having to put them all in a directory private
to groff is a deeply inconvenient solution.  All applications use a sym link
to a directories containing the various Type 1 font files (afm, pfb, pfm, and
ps).

Setting an environment variable to point to the downloadable fonts would be
acceptable, but that method seems not to work at the moment (see above).



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