Bug#178717: Fix for bug #178717?
On 12.09.10 Ralf Stubner (ralf.stubner@web.de) wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 21:30 +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi Ralf,
> > I going actually through some old bugs to find out if they are
> > fixed or if they're still present in TL. I tried to check
> > http://bugs.debian.org/178717 but failed. I'm not even able to
> > *compile* the minimal examples provided^1 . Further down Hartmut
> > provided another example, which shows the same problem w/o
> > needing specific chinese fonts^2. Event that example does not
> > compile on TL 2009 using pdfTeX.
>
> I am currently enough out of touch from the TeX-world, that I don't
> even have TL 2009 installed somewhere. Nevertheless I made some tests
> which might help here. I created a tfm-File from DejaVuSans.ttf, a
> font that most of you should have on their system, and installed that
> in a very rough fashion for TeX. Addapted test files then showed the
> desired bahviour, i.e. the font is marked as subsetted and the file is
> small when I tell pdfTeX (from TL 2007) to do so. Here the most
> important steps I took:
>
Many thanks for fast response! I could reproduce your steps and your
results on Debian stable and unstable. So that issue is solved, I'll
close that bug soon.
> $ cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf ~/texmf/fonts/truetype/public/dejavu
>
That was my fault. I simply assumed putting the file into $PWD would
be enough, but it is not.
> $ ttf2tfm /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf DejaVuSans.tfm
>
Lucky you! ttf2tfm is not in Debian stable, this command comes from
an old package from pre-lenny.
Thanks again,
Hilmar
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