Fedora 15 Update: ghostscript-fonts-5.50-27.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-14186
2011-10-12 23:20:16
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Name        : ghostscript-fonts
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 5.50
Release     : 27.fc15
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/
Summary     : Fonts for the Ghostscript PostScript interpreter
Description :
Ghostscript-fonts contains a set of fonts that Ghostscript, a
PostScript interpreter, uses to render text. These fonts are in
addition to the fonts shared by Ghostscript and the X Window System.

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Update Information:

This update removes the Hershey fonts as they cause problems with several applications.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 12 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 5.50-27
- Removed Hershey fonts as they cause problems (bug #707007).
* Mon May 30 2011 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 5.50-26
- Own %ghosted fonts.dir and fonts.scale.
* Fri Mar 25 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 5.50-25
- Removed non-free fonts (bug #690593).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #707007 - Hershey fonts broken in WYSIWYG text and graphic editing programs (scribus, abiword)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707007
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ghostscript-fonts' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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