[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#601068: otf-ipaexfont: dvips can't search font file

[Youhei SASAKI]

Hi,

At Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:59:02 +0900,
Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> wrote:
>  There are some font package that put .otf files under
>  /usr/share/fonts/opentype directory,

Yes, It seems correct.

> and I guess the problem you say is dvips specific issue, right?  So
>  it's not for otf-ipaexfont but problem in dvips (dvipsk-ja?) setting.

I'm very sorry for this bug report. 
Because I can't reproduce this bug in current squeeze.

So I'll close this bug report.

BTW,
>  Is it hard to add search path for /usr/share/fonts/opentype/* to
>  dvips by default? (or cause any problem?)

I don't know detail well, but It cause some problem, may be.  The
dvips(dvipsk-ja) see /etc/texmf.cnf. In this file, the settings are
written individually depending on the type of font, such as TrueType,
OpenType,...etc. 

Again, I can't reproduce this bug in current squeeze, so there are no
problem.  But if a problem occurs in future, it will be because the
placement of ttf-japanese-{mincho,gothic}.ttf is strange(some virtual
fonts are under /usr/share/opentype, not truetype)


Sincerely yours,
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