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Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-696 Moderate: ttmkfdir Encoding Fix

This update fixes a problem with ttmkfdir not including native encodings of Asian TrueType fonts in fonts.scale files used by the X font server. Users of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts are recommended to reinstall the font packages for these languages after updating ttmkfdir.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-696 2005-08-05 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : ttmkfdir Version : 3.0.9 Release : 14.1 Summary : Utility to create fonts.scale files for truetype fonts Description : ttmkfdir is a utility used to create fonts.scale files in TrueType font directories in order to prepare them for use by the font server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: This update fixes a problem with ttmkfdir not including native encodings of Asian TrueType fonts in fonts.scale files used by the X font server. Users of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts are recommended to reinstall the font packages for these languages after updating ttmkfdir. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Wed Aug 3 2005 Jens Petersen - 3.0.9-14.1 - replace ttmkfdir-3.0.9-defautl_enc_size.patch and ttmkfdir-3.0.9-crashplus.patch with ttmkfdir-3.0.9-fix-crash.patch to fix missing native encodings of fonts (Akira Tagoh, #143941) - buildrequire flex - add ttmkfdir-3.0.9-warnings.patch to silence most of compiler warnings ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 50c5b1283ce301de51ea6ac88f6715a2 SRPMS/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-14.1.src.rpm a4ff11c57d53620bded6c63f9d2af8ac x86_64/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-14.1.x86_64.rpm 288d698c0aa73c6049f79fa445cb4f1e x86_64/debug/ttmkfdir-debuginfo-3.0.9-14.1.x86_64.rpm 49fd6550194d00daf0e1e0e045e3d382 i386/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-14.1.i386.rpm 1c02fdebcd3b1a6b0cb63b3bc3aab6a0 i386/debug/ttmkfdir-debuginfo-3.0.9-14.1.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . This patch resolves issues concerning the encoding of Asian TrueType fonts within the ttmkfdir tool of Fedora Core 3.. Fedora Core,Fon Encoding,TrueType Fonts,TTMKFDIR Issues. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Aug 05, 2005 Fedora