[Bug 507262] Separate Japanese font configuration files for ghostscript

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--- Comment #10 from Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com>  2009-06-22 21:23:56 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > I know ghostscript now supports fontconfig but I cannot find the document for
> > setup.  
> 
> Well, if ghoscript now support font config we should certainly not add new
> cruft to its old font setup but on the contrary remove it and use fontconfig
> directly  

I'm afraid it may breaks some situations like PS requires the font with CMap. I
see current gs supports fontconfig but it doesn't work as alternatives for
them.

% gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.64 (2009-02-03)
Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS>/IPAGothic-UniJIS-UTF8-H findfont
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font/IPAGothic-UniJIS-UTF8-H.
Can't find (or can't open) font file IPAGothic-UniJIS-UTF8-H.
Querying operating system for font files...
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font/IPAGothic-UniJIS-UTF8-H.
Can't find (or can't open) font file IPAGothic-UniJIS-UTF8-H.
Didn't find this font on the system!
Substituting font Courier for IPAGothic-UniJIS-UTF8-H.
Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022003l.pfb... 3430216 1981599 7283800 5136677
1 done.
GS<1>clear
GS>/IPAGothic findfont
Loading IPAGothic font from /usr/share/fonts/ipa-gothic/ipag.otf... 3723064
2259574 13540108 11131402 1 done.
GS<1>

I don't think having aliases in fontconfig config for all of CMaps is
realistic. it could be a bug in gs but we shouldn't go without fixing this
issue.

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