Re: postscript fonts vs. pango aliases
- From: "Adrian E. Feiguin" <afeiguin uci edu>
- To: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- Cc: gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: postscript fonts vs. pango aliases
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:57:03 -0700
Hi Owen,
Sorry to keep bothering with this, but some odd things are confusing
me. I'm using the default RH9 installation packages, with the urw fonts.
I started setting the aliases for the 35 adobe fonts, using teh urw
equivalents. They are all installed using fc-cache, and they all show up
with the libgnomeprint test programs. For instance, if I use fonts
--dump, and I look at the list of fonts, I get, among others:
URW Gothic L Book
URW Gothic L Book Oblique
URW Gothic L Demi
URW Gothic L Demi Oblique
(It's not relevant, but I want to set these as the equivalents for the
PS fonts:
AvantGarde-Book
AvantGarde-BookOblique
AvantGarde-Demi
AvantGarde-DemiOblique
)
To test this, I do
font_desc = pango_font_description_from_string("URW Gothic L Book 18");
gtk_widget_set_font(widget, font_desc);
and I get:
WARNING **: Couldn't load font "URW Gothic L Book 18" falling back to
"Sans 18"
What am I doing wrong?
Another one: the correct name of the "Nimbus Roman No9, Medium" does not
work, and I have to use "Nimbus Roman No9, Regular" instead.
And finally, "Standard Symbols L, Regular" and "Digbats" don't display
nothing at all.
Can you explain this?
Thank you!
<ADRIAN>
Owen Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 13:14, Adrian E. Feiguin wrote:
I understand what you are saying, I've been digging into gnome-print and
I get it. The reason why I'm hesitant of doing it this way is: my code
is more primitve and basic, but simpler; and the main point, I
understand that pango cannot render symbol fonts (yes, it's a font
problem and not a pango problem), and symbols are crucial to a
scientiffic application like mine.
I'm not sure what you mean by "cannot render symbol fonts". As long
as the fonts encoding can be represented in Unicode, there is no
problem at all... a font like Adobe Symbol works fine because all
the symbols are in Unicode. Your font could also put its characters
in the Unicode PUA and that would work fine. If your font has
a completely custom character map, you'll need something like
the PangoFcDecoder stuff that Chris Blizzard did for pango-1.5
to allow use of Pango for Mozilla's MathML support.
So my idea was, if tha urw-fonts package in the gimp repository includes
the 35 basic Adobe fonts, I should't have problems using them. But for
some reason, after installing them, I can display them using xfontsel,
but not with gnome-print or pango. Why is that?
I'm not sure what you are running on your system. If you have a
reasonably modern system, to install fonts looks like
<copy fonts somewhere within /usr/share/fonts>
# fc-cache /usr/share/fonts
The urw-fonts package you'd find in most recent distributions
should do the right thing automatically, and I think most remotely
recent distributions should have urw-fonts intstalled by default.
(Red Hat has been doing so for at least 5 years.)
I am planning to take a look at ggv now, but I'm not sure this is a good
idea.
Thank you for any advice,
I think gpdf is going to be more useful. ggv is just a ghostscript
frontend, gpdf uses some parts of the gnome-print API. Though I'd look a
very recent version since some bugs were fixed recently in font
handling. But it's certainly going to be cleaner if you can work with
gnome-print, and Pango rather than drop down lower-level.
Regards,
Owen
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