While looking after a gsfonts bug (urw symbol does not map well to adobe symbols so some symbols are not drawn) i foudn this thread.
gsfonts take over the system http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155169 > 8 Sep 2002 Roland Rosenfeld wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Cory Dodt wrote: >> What package can prevent that from happening? Does it behoove every >> upstream author to request only font strings that match known AA >> fonts? > >This is the "right way"... > >An alternative is to remove the adobe font names from gsfonts-x11 and >use only the urw names from fonts.scale. Then patch all drawing >programs like xfig to use the urw fonts on screen instead of the adobe >names, which would get rid of the conflicts. But this is only a work >around to avoid most of the problems while it is not a solution to >the problem. The issue about mapping URW to adobe is quite old. To sum up the workaround was then to add alias for example: ! ! Work around problems with Comments in XEmacs: ! -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1 -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1 -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso8859-1 -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso8859-1 ! ! Work around problems with Tk8.2: ! -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 to avoid some of them being used without breaking application where those fonts are usefuless (xfig) As fontconfig has the capaibility that was missing then (avoid using type1 for small fonts) could it be added to fonts.conf ? Or should we keep the current setting (which does not try to guess what the application want but provide the best match) and let the applications implement substitution depending on the field they apply to : writer would like type1 to be type1, when web applications would mostly want them replaced by closest truetype ... (in such case could fontconfig enable a per application font patterns ?) Regards Alban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
