[Groff] Fw: make fails creating U-<fontname>

[Denis M. Wilson]

Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:47:26 +0100
From: "Denis M. Wilson" <address@hidden>
To: Deri James <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Groff] make fails creating U-<fontname>




On Sat, 26 May 2012 12:25:43 +0100
Deri James <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Saturday 26 May 2012 10:02:22 Denis M. Wilson wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 May 2012 23:41:32 -0400
> > 
> > Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Building groff from the latest sources, 'make' terminates with
> > > Error 2 after multiple warnings of the sort
> > > 
> > >   Warning: line 78: Failed to create groff font 'U-AB' by running
> > > 
> > > afmtodit
> > > 
> > > I don't recall seeing this before.  What's
> > > up?
> > 
> > In the file groff-current/font/devpdf You need to replace line 68
> > or so with your own path to the URW font directory, eg I used:
> > 
> > foundry|U|(gs):/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
> > 
> > rerun configure, and you should be fine.  This should ideally be
> > done by configure itself.
> > 
> > Denis
> 
> The "(gs)" runs "gs -h", and then the search paths shown are searched
> for the fonts. On my system the command gives:-
> 
> Search path:
>    /home/derij/.fonts : %rom%Resource/Init/ : %rom%lib/ :
>    /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource/Init :
>    /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/lib :
>    /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource/Font :
>    /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts : /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript :
>    /usr/share/fonts/default/type1 : /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts :
>    /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource : /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource :
>    /usr/share/ghostscript/CIDFont : /usr/share/fonts/ttf :
>    /usr/share/fonts/type1 : /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> Initialization files are compiled into the executable.
> 
> and if I look for one of the fonts I see:-
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  69965 Jan 17  2011 
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010015l.pfb
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root  root     15 Jun  3  2011 
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/adobestd35/a010015l.pfb
> -> ../a010015l.pfb
> 
> So in my case the font would be found automatically (by the last path
> in Search Path).
> 
> The problem occurs if the search paths yielded by "gs -h" don't
> actually include the standard fonts! Which is why you can add custom
> paths as well. The question arises, "How does ghostscript find the
> fonts if they are not on its own search path?", and I think the clue
> is in the message "Initialization files are compiled into the
> executable" which I think means the fonts are compiled into the
> executable.

I think it is the files in Resource/Init which are compiled in, and not
the fonts, which do not come with the source. gs maps font names to
files using Fontmap, and finds files with its search path, one element
of which is /usr/share/fonts/ghostscript, which as it is usually
non-existent is a useful place to make symbolic links to all your fonts.

On a recent upgrade to my system, Fontmap had disappeared as Debian had
hacked gs to use defoma, and the afm files are apparently ignored by
defoma.

> If someone has a better way of trying to find the fonts
> please give me a clue. :-)

For troff you need the afms, which gs may not find...

Denis

> 
> Peter, what does "gs -h" yield on your system and where are the fonts
> actually located?
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Deri