Bug#513956: Outdated version of URW-fonts (missing cyrillic characters) is provided with cups
Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
Package cups provides pfa postscript fonts in /usr/lib/cups/fonts
which are used by texttops filter.
Courier font from this package seems to be URW NimbusMono version 1.05.
This fonts do not contain cyrillic glyphs, so it is impossible to print
cyrillic text/plain files with cups in the default configuration.
However, Debian lenny distribution already contains URW fonts version
1.06, which contain cyrillic glyphs in the package t1-cyrillic.
Replacing /usr/share/cups/fonts/Courier with slightly edited
pfa version /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/n022003d.pfb
(converted by pfb2pfa program from texlive-font-utils package)
allows to print cyrillic texts. It seems that users of
Latin-1 languages shouldn't be affected, because these fonts contain
all Latin-1 glyphs.
Version of cups from experimental (1.3.9-12) seems to have same version
of fonts.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii cups-common 1.3.8-1lenny4.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny0 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii libavahi-compat-li 0.6.22-3+lenny1 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny4.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1lenny4.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-4 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.5 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities
ii ssl-cert 1.0.23 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii xpdf-utils [popple 3.02-1.4 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn avahi-utils <none> (no description available)
ii cups-client 1.3.8-1lenny4.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn foomatic-filters <none> (no description available)
ii smbclient 2:3.2.5-4 a LanManager-like simple client fo
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.3.8-1lenny4.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn cups-driver-gutenprint <none> (no description available)
pn cups-pdf <none> (no description available)
pn foomatic-db <none> (no description available)
pn foomatic-db-engine <none> (no description available)
pn hplip <none> (no description available)
pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japan <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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