[MacPorts] #50475: ghostscript needs font handling fix for PR696554

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Fri Jan 29 06:51:29 PST 2016


#50475: ghostscript needs font handling fix for PR696554
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  Reporter:  howarth.at.macports@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect                 |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal                 |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                  |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:                         |   Keywords:
      Port:  ghostscript            |
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Comment (by howarth.at.macports@…):

 Upstream analyzed the origin of the bug as...

 It's a dfont file, which Postscript (and thus Ghostscript) does not
 support.

 It's possible we could add a non-standard extension to support dfonts, but
 a)
 this stuff is written in Postscript, and it is not really desirable to
 have
 platform specific stuff in Postscript, and b) I understood even Apple were
 shifting away from using dfont files.

 So, for now, it's best just to handle the incompatibility gracefully.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50475#comment:2>
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