CTAN submission -- URW PostScript Base35 fonts

[Rainer Schöpf]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file base35.tgz to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.  Its contents should go into
 > a new directory:
 >
 >         fonts/urw/base35
 >
 > The upload occurs in accordance with the suggestions by
 > Staszek Wawrykiewicz <staw at gust.org.pl>.
 >
 > These are URW's PostScript Base fonts, which are provided
 > under the GPL and usually distributed in conjunction with
 > Ghostscript.  As far as TeX is concerned, pdfTeX and other
 > applications need them as drop-in replacements for Adobe's
 > non-free original Base fonts.  For several reasons they
 > should, from now on, be kept on CTAN also as a collection of
 > their own:
 >
 > * There exists already at least one collection of these
 > fonts with incompatible extensions (or bugs?) but unchanged
 > file names, so we need a "reference" distribution, which is
 > known to work with TeX applications as usual.
 >
 > * In the present collection a long-standing bug of URW's
 > Helvetica fonts - the wrong germandls - has been corrected.
 > Many thanks to Primoz Peterlin, who did the work!  (All
 > other font files are exactly the same as in GNU Ghostscript
 > 7.x and 8.00.)  Note that the bug fix has not yet found its
 > way into the Ghostscript distribution, but this should
 > happen soon:  Primoz Peterlin has contacted the GS
 > maintainers.
 >
 > * In the present collection all files are already named
 > according to the Karl-Berry scheme.
 >
 > See the file README.base35 for more information.

Thanks for the upload. We took the liberty to put the different types of
files (pfb,pfm,afm) into separate subdirectories in

   fonts/urw/base35

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf