https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496466

--- Comment #14 from David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] dkaspar@redhat.com --- (In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #12)

BTW OTF *is* the OpenType (SFNT) format used to ship CFF outlines nowadays so unless upstream did something really weird with its OTF files they satisfy :

# According to upstream, Ghostscript needs only Type 1 fonts to work properly. # It can use TTF or OTF fonts as substitutions as well in case the Type 1 # fonts are missing, but the substitution is not (and can't be) guaranteed to # be absolutely flawless, unless the fonts use the CFF outlines: # > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts#Compact_Font_Format

https://blog.typekit.com/2010/12/02/the-benefits-of-opentypecff-over- truetype/

Yeah, I realize that. That's why there's that additional note in specfile, that even though most of the Ghostscript should work with OTF now, the 'pdfwrite' device is still not able to do so... :-/

And as I mentioned in my previous comment, the ImageMagick also expects the Type1 /AFM fonts, and I expect there are some other applications might require it as well. Here's the list of packages requiring the old 'urw-fonts' package:

ghostscript-core grace GraphicsMagick graphviz htmldoc ipe libwmf mscgen pdf-renderer pokerth root-core synfig xpdf ImageMagick