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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/22328: new port -- print/ttf2pt1
Message-ID:  <200010272330.QAA52498@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/22328; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To: mi@aldan.algebra.com
Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, OKAZAKI Tetsurou <okazaki@be.to>,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
	Mikhail Teterin <mi@privatelabs.com>
Subject: Re: ports/22328: new port -- print/ttf2pt1
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:25:02 -0400

 mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote:
 > 
 > On 27 Oct, Mike Meyer wrote:
 > = > PREFIX/bin/t1asm conflicts with t1asm installed by print/t1utils, doesn't it?
 > =
 > = I believe it does. On the other hand, it may be the same tool, being
 > = used to finish the conversion. In which case, the correct solution
 > = would be to cut t1asm from ttf2pt1, and add t1utils to the runtime
 > = dependencies list.
 > 
 > Interestingly, it is the same tool. The one, that comes with t1utils,
 > though, is a newer version. Whereas the ttf2pt1's t1asm.c latest
 > revision ends at
 
 Yes, it's the same tool, just the version included with ttf2pt1
 is quite old (but it has a few fixes done since then). 
 
 > It is easy for me to just not install the "older" ttf2pt1's t1asm, but
 > they appear to have diverged substantially from the common root since
 > 1992. I wonder, what the software author's (babkin@bellatlantic.net)
 > can tell us :)
 
 I believe that the new t1asm from t1utils should work fine but
 I did not try it personally (though I think some other people did). 
 
 The problem with ttf2pt1 is that as of now it's not designed to be
 installed at all, it's more of a build-convert your fonts-throw it away
 type tool. After being installed the scripts will break badly.
 Making it more generally installable is on the ToDo list
 but with low priority. My current vision is to install t1asm 
 (and maybe some stuff from other/) into PREFIX/lib/ttf2pt1.
 Maybe also install t1asm as PREFIX/bin/ttf2pt1_t1asm
 (probably a hard or symbolic link into PREFIX/lib).
 But I'm absolutely certain that it must not overwrite t1asm from
 t1utils.
 
 Also ttf2pfa should not be installed (and generally not used at all)
 because it's just a historic relic.
 
 -SB
 


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