Bug 226462

Summary: GS cannot load Adobe's fonts
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Igor Melichev <igor.melichev>
Component: PS InterpreterAssignee: Jack Moffitt <jack>
Status: NOTIFIED LATER    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: master   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Customer: Word Size: ---

Description Igor Melichev 2000-12-20 03:09:39 UTC 
Originally reported by: igorm@users.sourceforge.net
Symptoms:

GS HEAD cannot load Adobe's fonts.
The following program works fine with Adobe fonts on GS 6.50, but
files on GS 6.50 :

(C*)
{ cvn findfont pop
} 255 string /Font resourceforall


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Ghostscript version (or include output from "gs -h"):

HEAD

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Where you got Ghostscript:

SourceForge

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Hardware system you are using (including printer model if the problem
involves printing):

PC 2*P3

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Operating system you are using:

Windows 2000

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If you are using X Windows, and your problem involved output to the
screen, the output from running xdpyinfo and xwininfo:

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C compiler you are using, including its version, if you compiled
Ghostscript yourself:

MSVC 6.0

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If you compiled Ghostscript yourself, changes you made to the makefiles:

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Environment variables:

See attached .bat files.

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Command line:

See attached .bat files.

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URL or FTP location of test files (include the data at the end of this
form if 500K or less):


http://users.erols.com/alexcher/MLC/foreign_fonts_failure.zip

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Suggested fix, if any:

I guess, recently something become wrong in /lib .

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Other comments:

GS 6.50 passed this test fine.

Also please pay attention to double slashes in font pathes,
in which GS tries to locate fonts.
Comment 1 Igor Melichev 2000-12-20 03:34:43 UTC 
Comment originally by igorm@users.sourceforge.net
After additional testing I found that all GS 6.12, 6.50, HEAD don't work properly, but each one is its unique manner.
For instance, with GS 6.50 findfont works, but /Font resourceforall does not. With HEAD it's vise versa.

I guess that Adobe is not the reason, but GS file system is. 

The test suite is now replaced with a bigger one.
Comment 2 L. Peter Deutsch 2000-12-31 09:55:38 UTC 
Comment originally by lpd@users.sourceforge.net
The problem is not the "GS file system". findfont and Font/resourceforall are very difficult to keep consistent, because the same logic algorithms must be implemented in two different ways. I recommend looking for the problem in lib/gs_fonts.ps, lib/gs_res.ps, and lib/gs_cidcm.ps.
Comment 3 Ray Johnston 2001-03-19 11:00:31 UTC 
Comment originally by rayjj@users.sourceforge.net
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