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Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge
From: |
James Cloos |
Subject: |
Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2008 15:42:24 -0400 |
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>>>>> "David" == David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:
David> The puzzle would be where the helvetica-like font that is
David> antialiased is coming from, then :-).
If you ask for the pattern «Helvetica» fontconfig will, using the
default fonts.conf, match that against a number of alternatives.
You need to use fc-match rather than fc-list to see this.
It is, in general, what the users want and expect.
The relevant comment is:
,----[ /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf ]
| <!-- Alias similar/metric-compatible families from various sources:
|
| PostScript fonts:
| Helvetica
| Times
| Courier
| URW fonts:
| Nimbus Sans L
| Nimbus Roman No9 L
| Nimbus Mono L
|
| Microsoft fonts:
| Arial
| Times New Roman
| Courier New
| Liberation fonts:
| Liberation Sans
| Liberation Serif
| Liberation Mono
| StarOffice fonts:
| Albany
| Thorndale
| Cumberland
| AMT fonts:
| Albany AMT
| Thorndale AMT
| Cumberland AMT
|
| Of these, URW fonts are design compatible with PostScrict fonts,
| and the Liberation, StarOffice, and AMT ones are compatible with
| Microsoft fonts.
|
| We want for each of them to fallback to any of these
| available, but in an order preferring similar designs
| first. We do this in three steps:
|
| 1) Alias each specific to it's generic family.
| eg. Liberation Sans to Arial
|
| 2) Weak alias each generic to the other generic of its family.
| eg. Arial to Helvetica
|
| 3) Alias each generic to its specifics.
| eg. Arial to Liberation Sans, Albany, and Albany AMT
| -->
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-JimC
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James Cloos <address@hidden> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, (continued)
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/18
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/22
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge,
James Cloos <=
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, James Cloos, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/24
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/27