Package: ghostscript Version: 9.05~dfsg-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Ghostscript fails to render or convert any postscript file that uses a font name that is not installed on the system if and only if a certain TrueType font is installed on the system. Through trial and error I was able to narrow this down to the Pagul TrueType font installed by package fonts-pagul. I am uncertain at this point whether this is a failure in ghostscript to deal with this particular font or a problem with the font file in question, but I am reporting to ghostscript for now.
Here is the simplest test scenario I have come up with: $ echo This is a test. | enscript -f MissingFont12 -o test.ps couldn't open AFM file for font "MissingFont", using default [ 1 page * 1 copy ] left in test.ps $ gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha test.ps The important point is that the postscript file being viewed contains a font that does not match any known fonts on the system. Desired behavior, reproducible on a freshly installed system: GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Loading NimbusMonL-Bold font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb... 3570712 2190963 3914208 2625285 1 done. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/MissingFont. Can't find (or can't open) font file MissingFont. Querying operating system for font files... Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/MissingFont. Can't find (or can't open) font file MissingFont. Didn't find this font on the system! Substituting font Courier for MissingFont. Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022003l.pfb... 3748368 2397780 4813868 3507413 1 done. >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< And the document is displayed correctly, using Courier as the font. Now either install the fonts-pagul package or manually install the original ttf file from the font's upstream sourceforge [1] page: # install -m 644 Pagul.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/Pagul.ttf # fc-cache -svf And repeat the ghostscript command above with the same document, here is the output I get every time: GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Loading NimbusMonL-Bold font from /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb... 3570712 2190963 3914208 2625285 1 done. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/MissingFont. Can't find (or can't open) font file MissingFont. Querying operating system for font files... Error: /limitcheck in /findfont Operand stack: fontdict MissingFont Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop 1909 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1868 2 3 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:1161/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:110/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 10729 GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 I have reproduced this on a clean wheezy live build, also by compiling ghostscript from source to verify it is in upstream, same results. I get the correct behavior when I add the -dNONATIVEFONTMAP option to ghostscript, so it appears to be dying either in the fontconfig code or in the portion of gs_fonts.ps that populates the native font map from fontconfig. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pagul/ -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ghostscript depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41 ii debianutils 4.2.1 ii gsfonts <none> ii libc6 2.13-26 ii libgs9 9.05~dfsg-2 ghostscript recommends no packages. Versions of packages ghostscript suggests: ii ghostscript-cups 9.05~dfsg-2 ii ghostscript-x 9.05~dfsg-2 ii hpijs 3.11.12-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
