UPDATE: ghostscript-8.51

[tatyana@…]

Plain ghostscript does not have any Asian (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and so on.) fonts. If you want to print some *exotic* documents, you have to install some additional fonts and CMaps manually. This is not so efficiently, isn't it.

I thought that DarwinPorts' powerful "variants" option makes this problem solve. And I wrote a patch. Please see the attachment file.

usage) If we want to print Japanese text using ghostscript, all we have to do is typing "+hiragino +aj16". Hiragino fonts and Adobe Japan 1-6 CMap files are installed with gs automatically.

Would you mind to accept this patch?

Sincerely.

[tatyana@…]

Portfile.diff

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[digdog@…]

Since the opentype fonts in the system library are only exist in Mac OS X, and not available for OpenDarwin, I think the variant hiragino part might be a problem.

However, I had no questions on CMap releated variants.

[jmpp@…]

(In reply to comment #4)

Since the opentype fonts in the system library are only exist in Mac OS X, and not available for OpenDarwin, I think the variant hiragino part might be a problem.

What about including these in a "macosx" platform section? That would not include OpenDarwin, hence no conflict.

-jmpp

PS: Without having read too deep into the patch, nor ghostscript's build system (therefore suggesting to take this comment with a grain of salt), I'd like to point out the proposed portfile is a bit too "turing complete", i.e. it attemps to solve manually some things which our infrastructure already handles quite well. I'd suggest writing something that simplifies the variants and relies a bit more on our {pre,post}-<target> and <variable>-{delete,append} hooks.

[tatyana@…]

(In reply to comment #4)

Since the opentype fonts in the system library are only exist in Mac OS X, and not available for OpenDarwin, I think the variant hiragino part might be a problem.

I think there is no serious issue, because

1. Nothing will be changed unless using "+hiragino" explicitly.

2. By definition, peoples who already have Hiragino fonts can use this variant.

3. Even if you haven't Hiragino fonts, nor OSX, you can buy it as an independent product.

(the font is a product of Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co.ltd.)

Since Hiragino font is widely used in Japan, i think it is worthy and important to support it in gs.

[tatyana@…]

(In reply to comment #5)

the proposed portfile is a bit too "turing complete"

How embarrassing.. (/) What you say is absolutely right. I fixed it. Thanks to point out.

[tatyana@…]

fixed Portfile.diff