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Re: Ghostscript patches and packaging
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: Ghostscript patches and packaging |
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Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:47:55 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Quentin Spencer writes:
> I'm an occasional user of lilypond, and new to this list. I'm also the
> maintainer of a few packages in Fedora Extras, and I'm considering
> submitting lilypond for inclusion there.
That's grand.
> currently in Fedora, and amazingly, my PDFs are now back down to their
> small sizes again.
> so clearly there are special cases that gs 8.15 can't handle.
Indeed. 8.50 is now GPL, so that should be used.
> I would like to put a request in Fedora's bugzilla to add this
> patch, however, I would like to present a convincing reason for why
> it needs to be included. Can someone give an explanation of what the
> patch does and where it came from (is this already in upstream CVS,
> for example)?
Yes, have a look at ghostscript bugzilla. If I'm not mistaken,
without this patch ghostscript will include a copy of the/a font for
each unknown local glyph. So, smaller PDFs are not really something
to be amazed about ;-)
But, there are more patches that GUB/ghostscript uses, one for windows,
two build patches and most relevant:
ghostscript-8.50-ttf.patch:
Bug 688154 "TTF file fails to load".
Jan.
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