Re: GTK+3 fonts

[Roger Davis <rbd soest hawaii edu>]

> $ fc-match Sans
> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

Aargh, I'm stupid, Liam! Somehow I managed to skip over the key piece of 
information you supplied in your brief response. Here's what I get on my 
Mac:

% fc-match Sans
Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"

Obviously this explains a lot. Looking around on the Mac I was able to 
'find' these:

% sudo find / -name '*Vera*' -print
/opt/X11/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf
/opt/X11/share/fonts/TTF/VeraBd.ttf
... lots more Vera*.ttf files in /opt/X11/share/fonts/TTF
...
... but also a bunch of other stuff here:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CorePDF.framework/Versions/A/Resources/FontInfo/BitstreamVeraSans-Bold.fontinfo
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CorePDF.framework/Versions/A/Resources/FontInfo/BitstreamVeraSans-BoldOblique.fontinfo
...

I suspect, but can't be sure, that the latter files were part of the MacOS 
install. The ttf files in /opt/X11/share/fonts/TTF almost certainly 
came from either a MacPorts package install (which could have been either 
from the gtk3 package or any one of a number of X11-related packages) or 
from an XQuartz install (Mountain Lion no longer has integrated X11, you 
must install XQuartz separately), and I have no idea which.

Anyway, I tar'd up all the DejaVu*ttf files from /usr/share/fonts on my 
CentOS 6 machine and dumped them into /opt/X11/share/fonts on the Mac, but 
my app does not seem able to find them there, and fc-match still says that 
Sans is aliased to the Bitstream Vera font. It would seem that there is 
still some other piece of font lookup information that is missing. Any 
idea on what that might be?

Thanks!

Roger