[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]

Am 07.03.2012 13:05, schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> make it definitely fail. So maybe this code should get refactored as
> well.

It is, I have attached two more patches.

Please apply the first one "font-index.patch" in any case, regardless 
of your decision to use font file names or fontconfig patterns in 
pdf.utf-8.*! It appends the index of the font in the font file to its 
filename, which gets passed over to otf_load(). It is gracefully 
ignored for .ttf files, i.e. in 99.9% percent of all cases but 
strictly required for .ttc files. It is thus crucial if you want to 
replace the "uming.ttc/0" entry in pdf.utf-8.heavy with a 
corresponding fontconfig pattern.

The second patch "fontconfig-patterns.patch" entirely removes the 
attempt to directly load font files from the $datadir/fonts directory 
and relies on fontconfig instead. Of course, it requires application 
of "pdf.utf-8.patch" which I sent in my previous mail and which 
replaced all the font file names in pdf.utf-8.* with corresponding 
fontconfig patterns, though.

Best Regards,
Fabian