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title="NEW --- - font substitution fails if font name contains a dash"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75178">75178</a>
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<td>fontconfig-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>font substitution fails if font name contains a dash
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>freedesktop@behdad.org
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>blocker
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>joachim.schwender@web.de
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<td>library
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<th>Product</th>
<td>fontconfig
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=94316" name="attach_94316" title="Example PDF wit such a font that is not embedded and gets not substituted properly">attachment 94316</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=94316&action=edit" title="Example PDF wit such a font that is not embedded and gets not substituted properly">[details]</a></span>
Example PDF wit such a font that is not embedded and gets not substituted
properly
I have PDF that contain a font named Code-128, not embedded. Just installing
this font does not help: it is not picked properly and evince uses DejaVu for
rendering, which is bad for a barcode font!
A fc-list does show the installed font. A fc-match does not work and always
returns "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
Expected: fontconfig picks the installed font and uses it for rendering in
evince. fc-match returns the font name it it matches, no matter what character
is contained in the name.
Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10 (x86_64) with fonconfig 2.10.93
Temprary workaround i currently use:
I used fontforge to change the font by removing the dash in the font name. Then
i implemented a substitution for Code-128 to be substituted by Code128.
Result: evince displayed the font properly but fc-match still does not work.
Unfortunately i have no influence on the PDF generation, they are generated by
a German Ministry of Interior and i have been struggling for three years now to
get them to create only PDF-A (fonts embedded), but they refuse to implement
that without giving meaningful arguments. We, like many other companies are
forced(!) to utilize these buggy PDFs, probably most companies use
Windows+AdobeReader and don't have that problem...</pre>
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