[pdftex] ttf2afm bug report

Hartmut Henkel hartmut_henkel at gmx.de
Mon May 1 15:19:13 CEST 2006


On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Markus Grabner wrote:

> ttf2afm rejects valid TrueType files with uppercase extension, e.g.
>
> 	ttf2afm times.ttf
>
> works, while
>
> 	ttf2afm times.TTF
>
> (where times.TTF is a copy of times.ttf) fails with the message
>
> 	ttf2afm: fatal: truetype fonts file `times.TTF' not found.
>
> My system:
> ttf2afm version 1.0
> SuSE Linux 10.0 (AMD64)

but

ttf2afm version 1.0
Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Han The Thanh.

works here ok with ttf2afm and kpathsea as of pdftex-1.40-beta-20060213.

Both file extensions (.ttf, .TTF) are defined in tex-file.c of the
kpathsea library. Seems SuSE somehow uses an older kpathsea.

Regards, Hartmut


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