diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 23fe537e8..96856a0dc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
           
             removing the bug that returned global BBox values in
             16.16 fixed format (instead of integer font units).
-        
+
+        * src/cid/cidriver.c (cid_get_postscript_name): fixed a bug that
+        caused the CID driver to return Postscript font names with a leading
+        slash ("/") as in "/MOEKai-Regular"
 
 2002-03-05  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
 
diff --git a/src/cid/cidriver.c b/src/cid/cidriver.c
index 4d02391e7..204993ac5 100644
--- a/src/cid/cidriver.c
+++ b/src/cid/cidriver.c
@@ -42,7 +42,12 @@
   static const char*
   cid_get_postscript_name( CID_Face  face )
   {
-    return (const char*)face->cid.cid_font_name;
+    const char*  result = face->cid.cid_font_name;
+    
+    if ( result && result[0] == '/' )
+      result ++;
+      
+    return result;
   }