[Fontconfig] Font selection for "okular" application

A. Wik awik32 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 17:10:47 UTC 2023


Thank you for your attempts to explain, but I'm having no luck.
What's worse, it's like there are 2 threads writing to stdout
concurrently -- here is a fragment:
    postscriptname:
     width:"TimesNewRomanPSMT" (w)100(f)

-aw

On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 at 02:37, Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> wrote:
>
> One correction. good to try FC_DEBUG=3 instead of 2.
> You may see a line of those font names after "best score". keep it
> note  and then check the "score" for your expected font family. it may
> be quite hard to find out though, reverse-searching with 'family:
> "Times New Roman' may help a bit. and then scroll down. you'll see
> some details of score evaluation and overall.
> The left side number is higher priority and there should be one less
> than Times New Roman. That is the reason.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 11:01 PM A. Wik <awik32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > (Forgot to CC this to the list.)
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: A. Wik <awik32 at gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 at 11:33
> > Subject: Re: [Fontconfig] Font selection for "okular" application
> > To: Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 12:29, Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > That simply means the query of "TimesNewRoman" isn't the same as what
> > > okular does.
> > > There must be a good reason for the results.  You may want to capture
> > > the debugging logs against real usage. try FC_DEBUG=2 okular to get
> > > more details.
> >
> > Details, indeed, several hundred megabytes!  Do you have any advice
> > for navigating it?
> >
> > -aw
>
>
>
> --
> Akira TAGOH


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