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

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> John Mandereau <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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,
>
> I don't think mine does.
>
>> 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.
>
> I will try today evening, but since I already removed the canorus
> package and am not sure it was provided by my package repository, it
> might be that I will not be able to restore the system to a state
> susceptible to the problem.  It may also be that the order of fonts will
> be different after reinstallation.
>
> So no promises.  The patch looks plausible, though.

Ok, so the bad news: canorus was not in the package repository.  So
reinstallation is not trivial: I have to dig it up and then install it.
And then it is likely that the version I'll be able to find will be
quite different from what I had installed previously (and which would
never have been updated after that).  Probably not something I'll be
able to do before the weekend.

-- 
David Kastrup