Bug 688022

Summary:	Wrong quoteleft char in n022003l.pfb
Product:	Fonts	Reporter:	Hilmar Preuße <hille42>
Component:	free URW	Assignee:	Chris Liddell (chrisl) <chris.liddell>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	christinedelight.top85, frob, henry.stiles
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	bountiable
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/293179
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	687297
Attachments:	shows the difference of the quoteleft char patch for t1diff

Description Hilmar Preuße 2005-04-08 04:25:14 UTC

We've got bug #293179 at the Debian Bug Tracking System. We could the problem
trace down to the different shape of the quoteleft character in the fonts
ucrr8a.pfb (coming from teTeX) and n022003l.pfb (coming from gs). We guess the
bug is sitting in the gsfonts as the shape of the regular font quoteleft char
differs significantly from the the quoteleft char in the bold, italic etc.
versions of the same font family. The latter is visible using fontforge or
similar tools.
Using the t1diff tool
(http://www.kammer.uni-hannover.de/~reinhard/texps/t1diff/t1diff.html) will show
more differences between both fonts, but the others are not that important.

Regards,
  Hilmar

Comment 1 Hilmar Preuße 2005-04-08 04:28:09 UTC

Created attachment 1294 [details]
shows the difference of the quoteleft char

Comment 2 Hilmar Preuße 2005-04-13 03:34:06 UTC

Created attachment 1316 [details]
patch for t1diff

gs has problems processing PS-files generated by t1diff. According to Ralf
Stubner this is a problem with the CR chars in the PS-file. This file should
fix t1diff.

Comment 3 Ray Johnston 2005-04-13 10:02:27 UTC

Since there are several open problems with the URW fonts, we probably
need to maintain our own tree of FontForge source files.

Ralph will create the repository, then assign this to Raph for fixing
it.

Comment 4 Valek Filippov 2007-05-25 09:07:55 UTC

I fixed it locally, so fix will be available with a new snapshot of gs-fonts.

Comment 5 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2011-12-15 16:21:08 UTC

I believe this is fixed with the latest URW font release:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=ea9a9517