Debian Bug report logs - #381386
gs-esp: doesn't render accents in accented polish letters using truetype fonts

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Robert Tasarz <rt-debian@greentech.pl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gs-esp: doesn't render accents in accented polish letters using truetype fonts

Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:03:14 +0200

Package: gs-esp
Version: 8.15.2.dfsg.1-1
Severity: important

I've observed it when I've tried to print document from OpenOffice Writer
with Arial font using CUPS Kyocera FS-1000 Foomatic/pxlmono backend.
Using 600 DPI quality, only two letters (small and big slashed L) has been
printed. Later I've tried to change backend to CUPS+Gutenprint also in
600 DPI and result was the same, but in 150 DPI accented small letter e was
printed additionally - letters 'a c s z' still didn't have their accents.
Next I've exported document to pdf and tried to print from kpdf - no luck
also - on screen everything looks ok, but on paper fails. So I've checked
what happens when importing pdf version to GIMP using 600 DPI and final
picture was without accents. Next I've checked other fonts in document
FreeSans and FreeSerif - didn't helped - same error. So finally I've
downgraded 8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 from 'testing' and with this version everything
works fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gs-esp depends on:
ii  gs-common                   0.3.9        Common files for different Ghostsc
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2               1.2.2-1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2                  1.2.2-1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libice6                     1:1.0.0-3    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-13        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpaper1                   1.1.19       Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                      1:1.0.0-4    X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-10     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4                    3.8.2-6      Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.0-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                    1:1.0.0-4    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                      1:1.0.0-5    X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-13   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gs-esp recommends:
ii  gsfonts               8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii  psfontmgr             0.11.10            PostScript font manager -- part of

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 381386@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>

To: 381386@bugs.debian.org

Subject: doesn't render accents in accented polish letters using truetype fonts

Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:19:02 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi, 

this bug also appears with german umlauts. I attach a PDF, showing the
problem. 

With 8.15.1.dfsg.1-2, the file is rendered correctly by
$ gv umlaute.pdf

With 8.15.2.dfsg.1-1, only two letters have their accent as they
should. 

Using gs-gpl, this is not a problem. 

Regards
	Thomas

[umlaute.pdf (application/pdf, attachment)]

Message #15 received at 381386@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>, 381386@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Setting severity to RC

Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:08:21 +0200

package gs-esp
severity 381386 serious
thanks

I'm bumping up the severity of this bug, preventing it from entering
testing. This bug breaks printing from everything using default gs for
at least two different languages. Additionally, the breakage isn't
obvious unless you check the printed output carefully.

Thanks
	Thomas

Message #26 received at 381386@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jens Prüfer <jens.pruefer@gmx.de>

To: 381386@bugs.debian.org

Subject: No "Umlaut" in Debian sid/unstable when printing

Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:24:52 +0200

Hi,

just wanted to confirm the bug is still there. My symptoms are similar. I 
can see all accented chars nicely in OOo 2.0.3 or when exported/printed 
to PDF. However, as soon as I print into a PS (or to the printer) the 
accents are lost (german Umlaut here).

The strange thing is that it is depending on the used fonts. 

If I chose "Bitstream Vera Serif", the "u are there, but "a and "o are 
just regular a and o. With "Gentium", I get the "o but no "a and "u. 
Using Microsofts "Times New Roman" I get no "Umlaute" at all (of 
course :) and using "Luxi Serif" gives me all the accents. Yay! 

For now I am using that font for all important documents, but I hope the 
bug will be rectified asap! It should get a "critical" rating, since 
printing accented chars seems to be like playing the lottery!

Versions are: gs-esp 8.15.2.dfs, CUPS 1.2.2-1, OOo 2.0.3-5

Cheers

Jens

Message #31 received at 381386@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillaume Brocker <gbrocker@free.fr>

To: 381386@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gs-esp accent not rendered also in french

Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:23:17 +0200

Hi,

I've just installed a cups server using gs-esp for printing and I also 
encountered the same issue. Only some accents are printed only few 
times, according to the font. I tested this using abiword, openoffice 
and gedit.

Versions are:
 gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.1-1
 cupsys 1.2.2.1

Thanks

	Guillaume

Message #36 received at 381386-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>

To: 381386-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#381386: fixed in gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.1-2

Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:32:11 -0700

Source: gs-esp
Source-Version: 8.15.2.dfsg.1-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gs-esp, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.1-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gs-esp/gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.1-2.diff.gz
gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.1-2.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gs-esp/gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.1-2.dsc
gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gs-esp/gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 381386@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org> (supplier of updated gs-esp package)

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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:33:07 +0900
Source: gs-esp
Binary: gs-esp
Architecture: source i386
Version: 8.15.2.dfsg.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
Changed-By: Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
Description: 
 gs-esp     - The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP version
Closes: 381386 382250
Changes: 
 gs-esp (8.15.2.dfsg.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [Kenshi Muto]
   * gs-cjk-resource still needs for CJK people.
     Revert a dependency.
   * Apply revert patch 166:164. Upsream CJK patch broke umlaute.
     (closes: #381386, #382250)
Files: 
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 fdfa0996ea0691a35c9004ad6d64416d 166912 text optional gs-esp_8.15.2.dfsg.1-2.diff.gz
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