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

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>> If one uses the --sort option, one gets dozens of fonts.  The Type1
>> font is at the second place and increasingly dissimilar fallbacks
>> follow.  The fontformat= entry does not seem to change anything any
>> which way.  Using foundry=urw in contrast helps.  But that probably
>> is asking more than you want.
>
> I don't think so.  AFAIK, we want *exactly* the URW versions, so this
> looks like a good alternative.

When I wrote the above, my rationale was that the URW fonts are Century
Schoolbook font clones with identical font metrics.  If someone would be
to install the original Century Schoolbook fonts, he'd likely disable
the URW fonts in the process (or at least put them later in the search
order).  Do we really want to use these particular clones in case there
are supposedly metrically identical fonts installed in a preferred
setting?

Namely: do we actually need the URW fonts and nothing else, or do we
need something that the system installation is prepared to call "Century
Schoolbook"?

If for some reason, only the URW version of those fonts is acceptable,
the foundry=urw variant obviously is the way to go.

-- 
David Kastrup