[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662660: Bug#662660: cups-filters: Please drop ttf-freefonts and use fontconfig to find the best-matching similar font

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Mar 6 16:26:44 UTC 2012


Am 06.03.2012 16:54, schrieb Till Kamppeter:
> Attached is the file which I originally sent to the printer and the
> scanned printout.

The printout looks as if all glyphs have been arranged in a fixed 
raster, since a monospaced font is expected, but the font actually 
used is proportional, i.e. "DejaVu Sans" "Book". This needs fixing in 
my patch...

> sudo dpkg -P --force-depends ttf-freefont
> sudo rm /usr/share/cups/fonts/FreeMono*

What happend if you manually bend the symlinks to, say, Liberation Mono?

  - Fabian






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