[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 49037] Noncompliance with Standard-14 fonts requirement in PDF specs

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49037

--- Comment #10 from suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp> 2012-04-24 20:17:26 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> 3. Of course we could search the registry for a ghostscript installation, it's
> quite easy, too, and look for the GS_LIB-key, it already has a pointer to the
> ghostscript installed fonts. But unfortunately ghostscript removes its font
> installer, so also here You have to download the ghostscript fonts manually and
> have to put them in the correct directory.

BTW, it is slightly off-topic discussion, I have a concern about
base PDF/PS font availabilities in future Ghostscript package.
Ghostscript has a hook to embed fonts into its binary executable
or shared library (I remember making CPIO archive of the fonts
and put it in the binary), thus, it would be possible for Ghostscript
to work without the installation of the font files.

# I guess this hook is designed for the proprietary customers who
# don't want to expose the bundled fonts to the outside of the
# Ghostscript.

I think, Unix distributors won't rely on this hook, because there
are many software who want to use PostScript Type1 fonts and embedding
the font files to Ghostscript executable would be just an inflation
of the file size. But I'm not sure about how Windows packages would
be designed.

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