[tex-live] Bug#690125: texlive-fonts-recommended contains four strange duplicates of the Type 1 font files for Nimbus Sans

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl, hi all

On Mi, 10 Okt 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> the texlive-fonts-recommended package contains four strange duplicates  

TeX Live package "helvetic", contained in collection-fontsrecommend

> of the Type 1 font files for URW's Helvetica clone Nimbus Sans. The  
> files are not among the fonts hosted on CTAN and seem to be ancient  
> versions of the condensed fonts with the letter 'c' indicating  
> "condensed" in the file name at a different position:

The following additional files are here:
uhvbrc8a.pfb
uhvboc8a.pfb
uhvrrc8a.pfb
uhvroc8a.pfb

Looking at the pfb converted fonts I see that they seem to be old
versions of fonts we ship. In the following list the fonts starting
with "??" seem to be the superfluous ones:

uhvb8ac.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright (URW)++,Copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development) readonly def
uhvb8ac.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Bold Condensed) readonly def
??uhvbrc8a.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1994 by URW) readonly def
??uhvbrc8a.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Bold Condensed) readonly def

uhvbo8ac.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright (URW)++,Copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development) readonly def
uhvbo8ac.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Bold Condensed Italic) readonly def
??uhvboc8a.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1994 by URW) readonly def
??uhvboc8a.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Bold Condensed Italic) readonly def

uhvr8ac.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright (URW)++,Copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development) readonly def
uhvr8ac.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Regular Condensed) readonly def
??uhvrrc8a.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1994 by URW) readonly def
??uhvrrc8a.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Regular Condensed) readonly def

uhvro8ac.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright (URW)++,Copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development) readonly def
uhvro8ac.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Regular Condensed Italic) readonly def
??uhvroc8a.pfa:/Copyright (Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1994 by URW) readonly def
??uhvroc8a.pfa:/FullName (Nimbus Sans L Regular Condensed Italic) readonly def

WHich shows that the versions we are actually using and have accompanying
afm files etc, are form 1999.

But there are some left overs from 94. And also seem not to be present on
CTAN.

Karl, what about removing them?


Best wishes

Norbert
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