[PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

[John Mandereau]

David Kastrup wrote:
> So it would appear to be a problem that fc-match first finds the true
> type fonts installed by Canorus, and then this first match is
> subsequently thrown away by grep -v.
>
> So I think you need to figure out how to tell fc-match to prefer Type1
> over TrueType, or how to make it list all matches rather than a single
> one.  Weeding out the Truetype when it has been listed _instead_ rather
> than in addition to the Type1 fonts will not do the trick.
>   

I haven't investigated far enough to be able to force Fontconfig to 
prefer TTF over Type 1, so I can't reproduce the problem
you describe.  Does the attached patch help on your system?  At least it 
doesn't break font selection on my Fedora 9 system.

Best,
John

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d8f1199..e27d828 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if test "$NCSB_DIR" != "" ;  then
 else
   if test "$FCMATCH" != ""; then
     for style in Roman Italic "Bold Italic" Bold; do
-      NCSB_FILE=`$FCMATCH --verbose "Century Schoolbook L:style=$style" | grep 
'file:' | grep -v "\.ttf"`
+      NCSB_FILE=`$FCMATCH --verbose "Century Schoolbook 
L:style=$style:fontformat=Type 1" | grep 'file:' | grep -v "\.ttf"`
 
       NCSB_FILE=`echo $NCSB_FILE | sed 's/^.*"\(.*\)".*$/\1/g'`
       NCSB_FILE=`$PYTHON "$srcdir/scripts/auxiliar/readlink.py" $NCSB_FILE`