On Solaris 10 there is an unsupported free software package which contains
a Type 3 Postscript font:
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johnson # grep pcfont.pfa /var/sadm/install/contents
/usr/sfw/share/a2ps/fonts/pcfont.pfa f none 0444 root bin 19263 12256 1099040607 SUNWa2psu
johnson# pkginfo -l SUNWa2psu
   PKGINST: SUNWa2psu
      NAME: a2ps - GNU Any to PostScript filter (user)
  CATEGORY: system
      ARCH: sparc
   VERSION: 11.10.0,REV=2004.10.29.03.04
   BASEDIR: /
    VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC: a2ps - GNU Any to PostScript filter (user) 4.13
    PSTAMP: sfw1020041029030751
  INSTDATE: nov 08 2004 14:31
   HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS: completely installed
     FILES: 260 installed pathnames
                   6 shared pathnames
                  18 directories
                  10 executables
               11020 blocks used (approx)
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Type 3 Postscript fonts are intended for embedding in jobs that will
be sent to an environment in which there is a full postscript interpreter.
Without that you can't handle Type 3 fonts. The JDK rasteriser doesn't have
such support so ideally we should reject these fonts on opening.

JDK 1.5 can in fact parse the name out of the file so will enumerate the font,
but when you try to use it, discovers problems and rejects the font, so you
will get it replaced with Dialog.
It would be better to not enumerate the font at all.

JDk 1.4.2_06 fares worse - it crashes outright when trying to use the font.

This was discovered when trying to verify bug 5096063. It appeared that the
fix was failing, but in fact it was this unrelated problem.
The recommendation would be do not install that package.


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