<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I now understand both why gs is not printing FC debug messages and why it is not matching the same fonts that fc-match does.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I downloaded the Centos 7 ghostscript source package tonight and found that the only part of fontconfig that it uses is the subset of routines to collect the names of fonts available. It adds the FC font list to its own set of fonts, and it then does its own font searching and matching.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the font matching problem is somewhere in gs, not fontconfig. Thanks for the responses; I hope knowing that gs’s use of fontconfig is limited comes in useful.<br class=""><div class="">
<br class=""> -- Michael
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 30, 2021, at 12:28, Michael Brennen <<a href="mailto:michael@fishnet.us" class="">michael@fishnet.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 30, 2021, at 12:13, Michael Brennen <<a href="mailto:michael@fishnet.us" class="">michael@fishnet.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 29, 2021, at 03:34, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <<a href="mailto:ldo@geek-central.gen.nz" class="">ldo@geek-central.gen.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 01:56:45 -0500, Michael Brennen wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Yes. And we need to do this while reproducing the problem--that is,<br class="">running Ghostscript and watching it fail to find the .ttf file and use<br class="">.ttf.orig instead. Looking at the FC_DEBUG flags, it may be worthwhile<br class="">turning on just about everything (FC_DEBUG=8191). You may end up with a<br class="">huge logfile, but at least you can search through it to see where the<br class="">.ttf.orig name is coming from.</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Responding to my own post below, one obvious answer to my question is that FcFontSetMatchInternal() is not called. My perusing the source was fairly quick, and this is the first time I’ve looked at it; perhaps I am missing the overall flow of the FC code. Even if that is the case, why is there no debug info printed at all? I would expect something to be printed besides setting <font face="Courier" class="">FC_DEBUG=2.</font><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">Thanks for any insight,<br class=""></font><div class=""><br class=""> -- Michael</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Glancing briefly over the source, it appears that FcFontSetMatchInternal() should be printing significant debug information when FC_DEBUG=2 (=FC_DBG_MATCHV), but it is not.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am running gs as follows:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">================================</div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">export FC_DEBUG=2</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">/usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -dJPEGQ=100 -r288 -dDownScaleFactor=4 -sOutputFile=file-q-%02d.jpg "source.ai" -dBATCH >fc_gs_log 2>&1</font></div></div><div class="">================================</div><div class=""></div><font face="FontinSans-Regular" class=""><span class=""><div class=""><font face="FontinSans-Regular" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><br class=""></span></font><div class=""><font face="FontinSans-Regular" class=""><span class="">The contents of fc_gs_log are as follows. </span>FC_DEBUG is set to 2, but there is no debug information. Does anyone have an idea why the extensive debug info is missing? I think I need to see that to understand why the .ttf file is being skipped. Thanks much….</font></div><div class=""><font face="FontinSans-Regular" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="FontinSans-Regular" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></font><div class="">================================</div><div class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="">GPL Ghostscript 9.25 (2018-09-13)<br class=""></span><div class="">Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.</div><div class="">This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.</div><div class="">Processing pages 1 through 2.</div><div class="">Page 1</div><div class="">Querying operating system for font files...</div><div class="">DEBUG: FC_WEIGHT didn't match</div><div class="">FC_DEBUG=2</div><div class="">**** Warning: glyf overlaps cmap, truncating.</div><div class="">**** Warning: glyf overlaps cmap, truncating.</div><div class="">**** Warning: glyf overlaps cmap, truncating.</div><div class="">**** Warning: glyf overlaps cmap, truncating.</div><div class="">**** Warning: glyf overlaps cmap, truncating.</div><div class="">Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/MoongladeDEMO-Regular.</div><div class="">Can't find (or can't open) font file MoongladeDEMO-Regular.</div><div class="">Loading MoongladeDEMO-Regular font from /var/www/ext/resources/fonts/2- Moonglade Regular DEMO.ttf.orig... 4484276 3144792 12161916 2847020 3 done.</div><div class="">Page 2</div><div class="">Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/MoongladeDEMO-Regular.</div><div class="">Can't find (or can't open) font file MoongladeDEMO-Regular.</div><div class="">Loading MoongladeDEMO-Regular font from /var/www/ext/resources/fonts/2- Moonglade Regular DEMO.ttf.orig... 4765108 3344760 2344716 1014065 3 done.</div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>