Re: Add sans-serif and monospace fonts (issue 224800043 by address@hidden)

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Moreover, in my experiment, pango can't handle the ligature of
>> PostScript Type1 font (.pfb with .afm or .pfm).  It can handle the
>> ligature of OpenType font (.otf).

If you assumption is correct, this is clearly a bug.  Looking into the
source code of Pango, I can't find a reference to the string AFM at
all; similarly, the GNOME bug tracker doesn't contain the string AFM
either.

> I'd have thought that a sensible Pango design would have gotten by
> with at most a .afm file for producing PostScript files without
> embedded fonts but using PostScript standard fonts.

Indeed.


    Werner