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Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing"

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Hello Fabian and James,

Thank you for looking into this.

I remark that the symbolic links created in the *"X11/Type1" *folder change
the file extension of the original file. In particular:

> > file /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/NimbusSans-BoldItalic.pfb
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/NimbusSans-BoldItalic.pfb: symbolic link to
> ../../type1/urw-base35/NimbusSans-BoldItalic.t1
>
(Notice the origin file has extension *"t1"* but the symbolic link changes
that to *"pfb"*)

Is this change intentional?

It appears pdfbox is using the extension to determine the file type because
renaming the symbolic link to preserve the "t1" extension in the symbolic
link fixes the problem.

Fabian mentioned that *"upstream has decided to rename the binary font
files and in that course change the file extensions from .pfb to .t1." *but
from the above experiment it seems that upstream changed the actual file
format, and then they changed the file extensions to match the new format.

IMHO opinion, the solution would be to either not create the symbolic links
or to preserve the original names including the extension. I don't know
enough to know what is best.

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Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Jorge Moraleda <jorge.moraleda@gmail.com> - 2023-01-18 20:40 +0100
  Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-19 09:20 +0100
    Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-19 09:40 +0100
      Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2023-01-19 19:20 +0100
        Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-20 11:30 +0100
  Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Jorge Moraleda <jorge.moraleda@cytopar.com> - 2023-01-19 20:10 +0100
    Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org> - 2023-01-20 08:10 +0100
      Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-20 12:00 +0100
        Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-20 12:10 +0100
          Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-20 16:10 +0100
            Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-20 20:00 +0100
  Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Jorge Moraleda <jorge.moraleda@cytopar.com> - 2023-01-20 19:10 +0100
    Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-20 23:10 +0100
      Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2023-01-21 01:10 +0100
        Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2023-01-21 19:20 +0100
      Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org> - 2023-01-21 20:40 +0100
        Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-22 14:50 +0100
          Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-23 12:10 +0100
            Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-23 14:30 +0100
              Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-23 14:40 +0100
  Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-23 18:30 +0100
    Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-24 08:40 +0100
      Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-24 11:50 +0100
        Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-24 12:00 +0100
        Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-24 12:10 +0100
          Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-24 14:00 +0100
            Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" fabian@greffrath.com - 2023-01-24 14:30 +0100
              Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing" Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> - 2023-01-24 14:50 +0100

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