[Fontconfig] Wrong font names

Ambrose Li acli at ada.dhs.org
Thu Oct 27 14:24:16 EST 2005


On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:02:51PM +0200, Matthias Bachert wrote:
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> But all I see is a large list of "Futura" and "Futura Italic" and other
> wrong and undistinguishable names.
> 
> This always worked under Gnome 2.8 and fontconfig-2.2.3.
> 
> Is this a bug or is there some help available?

I am surprised that it actually worked under fontconfig-2.2.3.

This was a known problem. Fontconfig had (and I believe still
has) very poor support for Postscript fonts. Almost all my
commercial fonts are handled in the way you described.




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