Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2013-08-28 15:25:59) > Am Mittwoch, den 28.08.2013, 10:27 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >> f) GUS TeX Gyre: unknown base 35 match, covers eastern european, >> GFL. > > Tex-gyre decided to sacrifice strict metric compatiblity with the > Adobe fonts in favor of nicer aesthetics, e.g. > > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/heros/readme-tex-gyre-heros.txt/view > . > > Thus, they may be preferable for type setting but are also > unacceptable for usage in ghostscript. I suspected that. Thanks for the confirmation. >> For Postscript RIPs (Ghostscript and Poppler), base 35 match and GPL >> compatibility is important. I trust the Ghostscript project in >> picking e) as the best option for that, and we should package their >> pick in Debian (but IMO not branded as "Ghostscript pick", but "URW++ >> work"!). > > e) is already part of ghostscript 9.09, though the font file names and > the font names in these files have been modified. Yes, I am aware of that. I thought we were in consensus about that. The list I provided in my last email was meant as a starting point for eventual exploration of *other* uses than for RIPs. I.e. as a response to the question about visual comparison. [continuing practice of aggressive quote-cutting] > [...] it's already practice that supplementary data which is neither > affiliated nor restricted to a speficic software but redistributed by > the same project is called after that project. I didn't know that you > consider the package name "poppler-data" also wrong, although upstream > has chosen this name itself. There are several common practices. Most (if not all) content of poppler-data package has Adobe as true source (and is included with Ghostscript project too, just stripped from recent Debian packaging). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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