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Bug#662892: marked as done ("Error: /limitcheck in /fontfont" on an unknown font with a certain font installed)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.05~dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Ghostscript fails to render or convert any postscript file that uses a font
name that is not installed on the system if and only if a certain TrueType font
is installed on the system.  Through trial and error I was able to narrow this
down to the Pagul TrueType font installed by package fonts-pagul.  I am
uncertain at this point whether this is a failure in ghostscript to deal with
this particular font or a problem with the font file in question, but I am
reporting to ghostscript for now.

Here is the simplest test scenario I have come up with:

$ echo This is a test. | enscript -f MissingFont12 -o test.ps
couldn't open AFM file for font "MissingFont", using default
[ 1 page * 1 copy ] left in test.ps
$ gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha test.ps

The important point is that the postscript file being viewed contains a font
that does not match any known fonts on the system.

Desired behavior, reproducible on a freshly installed system:

GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusMonL-Bold font from
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb... 3570712 2190963 3914208 2625285
1 done.
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/MissingFont.
Can't find (or can't open) font file MissingFont.
Querying operating system for font files...
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/MissingFont.
Can't find (or can't open) font file MissingFont.
Didn't find this font on the system!
Substituting font Courier for MissingFont.
Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022003l.pfb... 3748368 2397780 4813868 3507413
1 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

And the document is displayed correctly, using Courier as the font.

Now either install the fonts-pagul package or manually install the original ttf
file from the font's upstream sourceforge [1] page:

# install -m 644 Pagul.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/Pagul.ttf
# fc-cache -svf

And repeat the ghostscript command above with the same document, here is the
output I get every time:

GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusMonL-Bold font from
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb... 3570712 2190963 3914208 2625285
1 done.
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/MissingFont.
Can't find (or can't open) font file MissingFont.
Querying operating system for font files...
Error: /limitcheck in /findfont
Operand stack:
   fontdict   MissingFont
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1910   1   3   %oparray_pop
1909   1   3   %oparray_pop   1893   1   3   %oparray_pop   1787   1   3
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   1868   2   3   %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1161/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:110/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 10729
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I have reproduced this on a clean wheezy live build, also by compiling
ghostscript from source to verify it is in upstream, same results.  I get the
correct behavior when I add the -dNONATIVEFONTMAP option to ghostscript, so it
appears to be dying either in the fontconfig code or in the portion of
gs_fonts.ps that populates the native font map from fontconfig.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pagul/



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  debianutils            4.2.1
ii  gsfonts                <none>
ii  libc6                  2.13-26
ii  libgs9                 9.05~dfsg-2

ghostscript recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ghostscript suggests:
ii  ghostscript-cups  9.05~dfsg-2
ii  ghostscript-x     9.05~dfsg-2
ii  hpijs             3.11.12-2

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
I just retested my original example with the version that just showed up
in testing, and this bug is now fixed.

Thanks!

-- 
mike

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