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PostScript Type 1 fonts



Hi folks,

Is someone willing to update the PostScript Type 1 fonts in package fonts-urw-base35 to type OpenType (or TrueType)?

Virtually no program on modern GNU/Linux distros still supports PostScript Type 1 fonts.
This includes GIMP, Krita, LibreOffice.

And removing fonts-urw-base35 (to manually install OpenType versions of the fonts) is a problem, because, for some reason, Ghostscript depends on it. See:
$ sudo apt rdepends fonts-urw-base35
$ sudo apt rdepends libgs9-common
$ sudo apt rdepends libgs9

Of course, the same suggestion/request for all other packages that still contain PostScript Type 1 fonts.

Best regards,
Norbert

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