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Bug#330095: marked as done (gs-gpl: font problems with -sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4)

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Package: gs-gpl
Version: 8.15-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

"gs -sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4" seems to display some font sizes
incorrectly. Characters are far too large. For a demonstration, please
have a look at:

    http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/josuomel/tmp/gs-bug/

The problem disappears if I disable platform fonts (-dNOPLATFONTS) or
if I remove the TextAlphaBits setting. It seems to affect at least
some normal fonts like Helvetica or Courier in certain small point
sizes.

I have no idea if these settings make any sense at all. However, this
seems to be what kghostview is using by default. As a workaround, one
may disable platform fonts in kghostview settings.

My installation is an up-to-date debian unstable. I don't think I have
done anything strange with my X installation or fonts, but please feel
free to ask for more information if you need.

I noticed this problem a couple of days ago. For some reason I have
not seen this earlier; it might be related to some recent update.

Best regards,
Jukka Suomela

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gs-gpl depends on:
ii  gs-common                 0.3.9          Common files for different Ghostsc
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libice6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-10          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpaper1                 1.1.14-3       Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.8rel-3     PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxt6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-4      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gs-gpl recommends:
ii  gsfonts               8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
pn  psfontmgr             <none>             (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 8.54.dfsg.1-5

Tested with the current gs-gpl version. The bug no longer exists.

Regards,

Alex.

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