On 2023-07-22 15:27, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
GNU roff has been updated to the latest upstream version 1.23.0. The
following packages are available on Cygwin:
groff-1.23.0-1
groff-perl-1.23.0-1
groff-X11-1.23.0-1
- Various PDF fonts produce warnings but seem to work in general:
$ echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f A > hello.A.pdf
/usr/bin/gropdf: warning: The download file in
'/usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf' has erroneous entry for 'AvantGarde-Book
(AR)'
$ grep -a BaseFont hello.A.pdf
5 0 obj << /BaseFont /AvantGarde-Book
Affected are all except T(imes), H(elvetica) and C(ourier).
This script tests all PDF fonts for warnings:
#!/bin/sh
(cd /usr/share/groff/current/font/devpdf && ls -d *R 2>/dev/null) \
| while read f; do
f=${f%R}
echo "$f:"
echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f "$f" > "hello.$f.pdf"
done
- Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only header and
footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays at the default font 'T':
$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -man -Tpdf -f H > ls.1.H.pdf
$ grep -a BaseFont ls.1.H.pdf
6 0 obj << /BaseFont /Helvetica-Oblique
10 0 obj << /BaseFont /Helvetica
13 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Bold
16 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Roman
19 0 obj << /BaseFont /Times-Italic
Intentional change or regression?
There appears to be font alternative/fallback dependencies between groff and
ghostscript with version numbers - I have previous groff 1.22.4 and gs 10.0 so
these paths are outdated in my installation:
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: AvantGarde-Book
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-Book
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: AvantGarde-BookOblique
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-BookOblique
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: AvantGarde-Demi
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-Demi
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: AvantGarde-DemiOblique
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWGothic-DemiOblique
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: Bookman-Demi
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-Demi
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: Bookman-DemiItalic
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-DemiItalic
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: Bookman-Light
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-LightItalic
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download: Bookman-LightItalic
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/URWBookman-Light
What do you have?
It looks like groff should check and update gs version postinstall and gs should
check for groff and update version postinstall.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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