I'm on OpenSuSE-11.4. I have 240 /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/helv*.pcf.gz. Are these unavailable for SVG/PDF generation?
My /etc/fonts/fonts.conf names "<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>" (and three other dirs which don't exist). Expressly adding <dir>/usr/share/fonts/100dpi</dir> to /etc/fonts/conf.avail/local.conf and fc-cache doesn't appear to help. fontforge-2011, to my understanding, does not convert pcf files. On 06/29/2011 10:44 AM, Rob Sargent wrote: > Well, that explains why the bold text of my sidebar looks fine! > > Give that this SVG we're talking about I have to get _some_ font into > the OS's fonts setup. Also give that the stylesheet has to work on > Windows, Mac and Linux, what are the chances of um, er aliasing FreeSans > as Helvetica? Looks like I could do that in /etc/fonts/fonts.config? > Any hope there? > > Thanks much, > > rjs > > On 06/29/2011 05:19 AM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I added some comments to the Bugzilla report. More details regarding >> this specific issue: >> >> Linux systems don’t have the Helvetica font, they use the Nimbus Sans L >> clone. So you would have to specify ‘Nimbus Sans L’ as the font family. >> The problem is, a condensed variant of this font exists, and is wrongly >> selected by Java (on my system at least, Ubuntu 10.10 with a Sun 1.6 >> JVM) for the bold weight. Which means that if you need bold fonts you >> may not be able to use Nimbus Sans L. You can choose any other font >> instead, for example FreeSans which is a TrueType version of Helvetica >> with more glyphs. >> >> HTH, >> Vincent >> >> >> On 28/06/11 18:25, Rob Sargent wrote: >>> Roger. Will give it a shot. >>> >>> rjs >>> >>> On 06/28/2011 10:03 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote: >>>> No problem. >>>> >>>> If you want any advice this is what I'd do: >>>> First double check it's not a kerning issue in the system font. I >>>> think this is unlikely, but we need to double check that. I'd do that >>>> by copying the font, and embedding the font in the PDF with the >>>> #PCDATA as "Jo" (to do this you'll have to put it in the fop.xconf and >>>> use a non-Base14 name). If the #PCDATA text shows the same issues, the >>>> problem is a font one, and we can be fairly confident it's not a FOP >>>> issue. >>>> >>>> If however this isn't repeatable with #PCDATA then we've got an issue. >>>> You'll already have the font in a local directory, so check it's type, >>>> check do some debugging in PDFPainter.drawText(...) and find out why >>>> the kerning is behaving as it is. i think it's a type1 font. >>>> >>>> I'll try and do the above myself if I get some time to spare. Just >>>> make sure you post any findings on the bugzilla entry so we can track >>>> it. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Mehdi >>>> >>>> On 28 June 2011 16:44, Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Mehdi, >>>>> >>>>> Sorry about the size of the pdf: I was hoping that removing the images >>>>> would make it simple enough or that the svg would suffice. >>>>> >>>>> Knowing that you think it's a bug is re-assuring. >>>>> >>>>> Not sure what "P2 normal" means in terms of time, so with a pointer to >>>>> what you think is the problem, I would be happy dive in. I meant to >>>>> register this against version 0.95 but I have moved this (portion of >>>>> our) product to 1.0. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> rjs >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 06/28/2011 01:43 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote: >>>>>> Hi Rob, >>>>>> >>>>>> I took a quick look at this and just a note for future. If you see >>>>>> this kind of problem, could you reduce the FO and PDF produced to >>>>>> isolate the problem. There's a lot of visual noise here that makes >>>>>> finding the issue more difficult, however, this does look like a FOP >>>>>> bug, I've created a bug >>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51441. I'll post >>>>>> any findings on there. >>>>>> >>>>>> Mehdi >>>>>> >>>>>> On 27 June 2011 21:17, Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> "Doth my eye deceive me?" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm back to thinking this is an FOP bug. >>>>>>> Attached please find an example pdf, it fo and the include svg files. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I manage to get "good output" by mis-specifying a font!! >>>>>>> <svg:text >>>>>>> font-family="-monotype-arial-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252"> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This generates a glorious stack trace but at least the J and the o of >>>>>>> Joint aren't touching each other. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 06/26/2011 03:17 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi Rob, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> No I don't it's necessary if you're happy that it's not a FOP issue. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Mehdi >>>>>>>> On 25 June 2011 21:55, Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Medhi, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I've loaded acroread on the shared linux box and the pdf looks fine. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Do you still want the pdf? Or does this become an Evince issue? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>>>> rjs >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> mehdi houshmand wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi Rob, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Could you upload the PDF in question (if it's not too big) and it'll >>>>>>>>>> give us a better idea of what the issue is. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Mehdi >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On 25 June 2011 04:37, Bernard Giannetti <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Something which happened to me (unrelated to rotating text) but I >>>>>>>>>>> noticed >>>>>>>>>>> a >>>>>>>>>>> difference between the PDF viewing engines of Adobe and Ubuntu's >>>>>>>>>>> Document >>>>>>>>>>> Viewer. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> There is some bug in the way the underlying library (used by >>>>>>>>>>> Document >>>>>>>>>>> Viewer) does rendering - I cannot remember the specifics but the >>>>>>>>>>> bug was >>>>>>>>>>> there still a few months ago. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> So perhaps look at your PDF using Adobe PDF viewer on Linux? >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:08:20 -0600 >>>>>>>>>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>>>>>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: fop not handling svn rotated text on linux >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Using fop-0.95 in this case. We generate a small svg file for the >>>>>>>>>>>> outside edge of each page and put the section name and page number >>>>>>>>>>>> (et >>>>>>>>>>>> al). The text is rotated +/-90 degrees for the section name. We're >>>>>>>>>>>> using Helvetica. Certain character combinations are just wrongly >>>>>>>>>>>> spaced >>>>>>>>>>>> but especially "Jo" which actually touch each other in the final >>>>>>>>>>>> pdf. >>>>>>>>>>>> Worse yet, this only happens on our linux boxes: OpenSuse 11.2 and >>>>>>>>>>>> 11.4 >>>>>>>>>>>> and Ubuntu. Windows boxes print just fine. 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