[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 34522] mapping problem with ligatures and accents

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34522

Werner Lemberg <wl at gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |

--- Comment #4 from Werner Lemberg <wl at gnu.org> 2011-02-21 22:29:08 PST ---
Sorry to say, but your solution is not acceptable for Joe User.  Fiddling with
fontconfig is extremely difficult since there are no GUI programs (that I'm
aware of) which allow the necessary manipulations needed to resolve the
problem.

Another complication is that the frequently used Optima fonts are not freely
available, and the URWClassico clone isn't either, as far as I know.

On the other hand, your solution works which surprises me:

  <alias binding="same">
    <family>Optima</family>
    <accept>
      <family>URWClassico</family>
    </accept>
  </alias>

I've expected that the ligature issues remain, but obviously URWClassico has
the right encoding vector.  The same is true if I use, say, `Century Schoolbook
L' as a replacement.

However, it fails if I try a TrueType font like `Liberation Sans'.  How shall
Joe User know this?  For me, this is indeed a very good reason to maintain a
database for resolving cmap issues – fontconfig can't do this job for poppler.

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