[Fontconfig] Still Baffled

Manish Singh yosh at gimp.org
Sat Feb 19 05:58:28 EST 2005


On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:33:08PM +0000, John Lowell wrote:
> On 02/17/05 22:59:53, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> >You can compare the set of available fonts on each machine by running
> >the
> >fc-list program; that will list the fonts that fontconfig knows  
> >about.
> > If
> >those lists are the same, you either have an issue with your
> >configuration
> >or just that the two difference versions of fontconfig are generating
> >different results.
> >
> >-keith
> 
> Keith,
> 
> fc-list shows identical font availability so the issue must be one of  
> configuration. This would concern differences in /etc/fonts/font.conf  
> or /etc/fonts/local.conf, most likely the former, would it not?

Also, even though the same version is reported on the 3 distros, they
may be applying local patches to the code which code change behavior.

I'd look for differences in config first though, and yeah, you should
check both files.

-Yosh



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