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

[Ralph Giles]

Sorry for the confusion. The font set used to get updated every release, 
but they are now released separately, so it's appropriate to just use 
the latest available release. To wit:

  ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs850/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz 

and

  ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs850/ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz

Unpack both of these in the same directory (note that only the std 
package is really required) and copy the resulting "fonts" subdirectory 
to the path indicated.

Hope that helps,
 -r


On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:55:20PM +1100, Brett Sutton wrote:
> 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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