[Pkg-fonts-devel] Fonts from package misbehave in exported PDF

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Sep 11 12:40:33 UTC 2012


Hello Mirosław,

thanks for your detailed analysis!

Am 11.09.2012 14:19, schrieb Mirosław Zalewski:
> Comment: On Arch, only font shown with spaces in name in LibreOffice is
> TexGyreBonum. Others are shown without spaces in name. But in KDE System
> Settings all are displayed without spaces in names.

The only tex-gyre package that I could find for Arch linux is the 
following:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40619

which obviously only contains the Opentype flavours. No wonder that 
the fonts do not show up duplicated. ;)

> I am out of ideas what can be wrong :( . But I strongly believe that this is
> LO fault and we should not provide hacks for this on fontconfig level.

I am not sure about this. Things seem to be wrong in the fonts 
themselves as well. All the fonts I have checked have different 
strings for Font Family and Fullname and in addition these differ 
between Mac and Windows strings, e.g.:

$ fontlint 
tex-gyre-2.004.1/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyretermes-regular.otf
Copyright (c) 2000-2011 by George Williams.
  Executable based on sources from 23:14 GMT 25-Feb-2011-ML.
  Library based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011.
Warning: Mac and Windows entries in the 'name' table differ for the
   Family string in the language English (US)
   Mac String: TeX Gyre Termes
   Windows String: TeXGyreTermes
Warning: Mac and Windows entries in the 'name' table differ for the
   Fullname string in the language English (US)
   Mac String: TeX Gyre Termes
   Windows String: TeXGyreTermes-Regular
[...]

No wonder that applications like LO or KDE get confused about this and 
show the fonts randomly with or without spaces.

  - Fabian




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