Bug#330846: gv: latex fonts rasterized with gs-esp 8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2 look like ass

[Christopher Mario Maes <cmaes@stanford.edu>]

Package: gs-esp
Version: 8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2
Severity: important


Using the latest version gs-esp as the postscript backend for gv causes
latex fonts to look horrible. The fonts are rasterzied correctly in the
stable version 7.07.1-9.   

Compare the stable version:
http://fluxion.mit.edu/old.png

with the unstable version:
http://fluxion.mit.edu/new.png

Note the lack of the bold font on Interests,how the letters appear
wispy and the terrible kerning. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gs-esp depends on:
ii  gs-common                0.3.9           Common files for different Ghostsc
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-3         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2            1.1.23-6        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2 [libcupsys2-g 1.1.23-12       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10      1.1.23-12       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0-7         Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-9            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpaper1                1.1.14          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-1      PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0-7         X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++6               4.0.1-4         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4                 3.6.1-1.1       Tag Image File Format library
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0-7         X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0-7         X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxt6                   4.3.0-7         X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.1-5       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gs-esp recommends:
ii  gsfonts               8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii  psfontmgr             0.11.7             PostScript font manager -- part of

Versions of packages gs-esp is related to:
ii  reportbug                     3.13       reports bugs in the Debian distrib
pn  totem-gstreamer               <none>     (no description available)

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