Bug#402387: ttf-freefont: FreeMono uses Negreta and Cursiva instead of Bold and Italic/Oblique

[Sven Arvidsson]

[ This is a follow up for Debian bug 402387 ]

> All I know is that, all of a sudden, the following code
> behaves differently than it was a day ago:
>    $ python
>    >>> import gnomeprint
>    >>> for font in gnomeprint.font_list():
>    ...     if font.find('FreeMono') != -1:
>    ...         print font
>    ...
>    FreeMono Cursiva
>    FreeMono Cursiva
>    FreeMono Negreta
>    FreeMono Negreta
>    FreeMono Negreta cursiva
>    FreeMono Negreta cursiva
>    FreeMono Normal
>    FreeMono Normal
> 
> Now that I look at gnomeprint.font_list(), I can see that other fonts
> are also returning Negreta and Cursiva, not just ttf-freefont fonts.
> So I guess something changed in gnomeprint or its python bindings.

Hi,

Considering that gnomeprint now is deprecated in favour of cairo and
gtk, is this bug still a problem for you, or can it be closed?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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