#157366 gsfonts-other: empty FontBBox in Hershey fonts

Package:
gsfonts-other
Source:
gsfonts-other
Submitter:
Torsten Werner
Date:
2026-08-14 17:37:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#157366#5
Date:
2002-08-20 09:08:40 UTC
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The Hershey fonts (e. g. hrscs.pfa) have an empty /FontBBox. Isn't that
an error?
#157366#10
Date:
2003-10-19 22:52:07 UTC
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After doing an 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade', fs-cache seg faults when
looking in /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/H. If one removes the Hershey-*.pfa
fonts, then the command executes fine:

    HOME=/root fc-cache -f -v

I thought this might be related....
#157366#15
Date:
2003-10-21 01:31:59 UTC
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Interesting. If I only had an idea about defoma. Which reminds me I
wanted to contact the new maintainer :) Angus, can you help me out
with this?

Greetings

	Torsten
#157366#20
Date:
2003-10-21 03:08:07 UTC
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At Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:31:59 +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:

Without looking any further, it seems like some bug/misunderstanding
in the Hershey fonts is crashing fontconfig's fc-cache.

You'd need to get a coredump and compare with fontconfig/freetype
source code to see whats going wrong.  You will probably want to
confer with the fontconfig maintainer, Josselin Mouette.

Defoma shouldn't affect this at all, a simple
  fc-cache -f -v /directory/containing/Hershey-fonts/
should be able to reproduce the segfault.
#157366#25
Date:
2026-08-14 17:34:44 UTC
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All 9 Hershey fonts are read fine now.