[bug-gs] Font other; Font std missing,

[Brett Sutton]

I don't know if this is a bug in the documentation or simply a case of 
missing files from the download area or both.

I'm trying to install Ghostscript GPL 8.50 and have read the 
documentation on the official ghostscript site which states:

(Note as yet there doesn't appear to be any doco for 8.50 so I've used 
the 8.15 doco)


http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/GPL/8.15/Install.htm


      /3.1 Fonts/

/ The makefile installs all the files except fonts under the directory 
defined in the makefile as *prefix*. Fonts need to be installed 
separately. The fonts should be installed in 
/{prefix}//share/ghostscript/fonts. (That is, 
/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/ if you used the default 
configuration above.)/

However the documentation doesn't go on to tell you how to install the 
fonts.


On reading the documentation for building ghostscript I find the following:
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/GPL/8.15/Make.htm


      /3.1 Ghostscript source code/

/ There are two kinds of Ghostscript distributions available, called 
"AFPL Ghostscript" and "GNU Ghostscript"; the distinction between them 
is explained in the conditions for distributing Ghostscript 
<http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/GPL/8.15/Commprod.htm>. The 
authoritative distribution site for AFPL Ghostscript is /

    /ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs### /

/ where "###" is the unpunctuated version number. GNU Ghostscript should 
be available on all GNU sites, such as /

    /ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu// 

/ Ghostscript source code is packaged in two different formats: 
gzip-compressed tar files (**.tar.gz*) and zip files (**.zip*). For all 
versions there are gzip-compressed tar files: /

    /*ghostscript-*#.##*.tar.gz*
    *ghostscript-fonts-std-*#.##*.tar.gz*
    *ghostscript-fonts-other-*#.##*.tar.gz

    */

The indicated site however doesn't have an appropriate versioned file 
for either fonts-std nor fonts-other.
There is a version 6.0 for fonts-other and a version 8.11 for fonts-std.


So can you please:
Post details of which files to download and update the documentation.
Post details of how to install the fonts and update the documentation.
As well can you post appropriately versioned files for fonts-other and 
fonts-std or post details on the documentation site indicating that the 
older versions of the font files will work with the most recently 
available version of ghostscript.

Frustratedly Yours,
Brett Sutton.


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