diff --git a/poppler-data.spec b/poppler-data.spec
index ba470d1..a95f5ad 100644
--- a/poppler-data.spec
+++ b/poppler-data.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 
+## to bootstrap and avoid the circular dependency with ghostscript
+## define this to be the ghostscript version
+#define gs_bootstrap 9.06
+
 Summary: Encoding files 
 Name:    poppler-data
 Version: 0.4.5
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Release: 6%{?dist}
 # The cMap data files installed by the poppler-data package are
 # under the COPYING.adobe license
 # cidToUnicode, nameToUnicode and unicodeMap data files
@@ -17,8 +21,10 @@ Source2: Identity-UTF16-H
 BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
 BuildArch: noarch
 
-## first version to not include bundled poppler-data
-#Conflicts: poppler < 0.11.0-5
+%if ! 0%{?gs_bootstrap:1}
+BuildRequires: ghostscript
+%endif
+%global gs_ver %(gs --version 2>/dev/null || echo %{gs_bootstrap})
 
 %description
 This package consists of encoding files for poppler.  When installed,
@@ -40,6 +46,16 @@ make install  DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT datadir=%{_datadir}
 # http://bugzilla.redhat.com/842351
 install -m644 -p %{SOURCE2} ai0/CMap/Identity-* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/poppler/cMap/
 
+# create cmap symlinks for ghostscript
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/ghostscript/%{gs_ver}/Resource/CMap/
+cmap_files=$(find %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/poppler/cMap/ -type f | sed -e "s|%{buildroot}%{_datadir}|../../../..|g")
+pushd %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/ghostscript/%{gs_ver}/Resource/CMap/
+for target in ${cmap_files} ; do
+ln -s $target
+test -f $(basename $target)
+done
+popd
+
 
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -49,9 +65,15 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc COPYING COPYING.adobe COPYING.gpl2 README
 %{_datadir}/poppler/
+%dir %{_datadir}/ghostscript/%{gs_ver}
+%dir %{_datadir}/ghostscript/%{gs_ver}/Resource
+%{_datadir}/ghostscript/%{gs_ver}/Resource/CMap/
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Sep 18 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 0.4.5-6
+- create ghostscript cmap symlinks (#842351)
+
 * Sat Sep 15 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 0.4.5-5
 - Identity-UTF16-H too (#842351)