Bug#496070: [ghostscript] opentypefont

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Am 08.02.2011 10:06, schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES:
> It seems that freebsd have converted their fonts to ttf see
> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/x11-fonts/urwfonts-ttf.html

According to 
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts-ttf/Makefile?rev=1.9> 
they did not convert them on their own, but used the fonts from 
<ftp://ftp.izmiran.rssi.ru/pub/fonts/urw/>.

However, the newer revisions of the fonts found in this directory are 
only available in type1 format and are AFAICT already included in 
Debian's gsfonts package.

> And it seems that these fonts have also some fontforge source see also
> another bug report.

Erm, which bug report?

Anyway, I think we should convert the well-maintained gsfonts from the 
Debian package using the script I proposed in my original bug report 
instead of relying on some third-party fontforge sources. That is, 
unless we find an even more actively maintained source for the fonts, 
e.g. texlive.

> BTW do you care to co maintian this package  ?

Sure, why not. ;)

 - Fabian