ps2pdf not finding Times-Italic font - where should it be?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Aug 7 18:03:39 UTC 2013


On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 11:58:39 -0600
Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to track down a problem I'm having with ps2pdf in
> > Rawhide, whereby it can't find the Times-Italic font. I know very
> > little about fonts and in fact I don't even know where (in which
> > package, or on the filesystem) this font should live. The Rawhide
> > build seems to be pulling in the same font packages as a working
> > F-19 build, so I'm at a loss at to why it's going wrong.
> 
> 
> BuildRequires: urw-fonts
> 
> I just had the same problem with the remake package.  I don't know
> why it is necessary to explicitly BR that all of a sudden.

The root.log of that build
(http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5791424) showed
urw-fonts being pulled in as a dependency of one of the existing
buildreqs, so there must be something else going on methinks...

Paul.


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