Re: Finding Century fonts

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On 19 août 2012, at 21:20, address@hidden wrote:

> 
> On 19 août 2012, at 20:58, John Mandereau <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Il giorno dom, 19/08/2012 alle 20.28 -0400, address@hidden ha
>> scritto:
>>> Nothing to do with iosnoop, but I did some snooping in the code base and I 
>>> can't figure out why LilyPond wouldn't raise an error if it doesn't find a 
>>> font.  In all-font-metrics.cc, there is:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>>> So it must find the font, but it doesn't print it (see the attached PDF).
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> My wild guess is that it is Ghostscript which doesn't find the font(s)
>> when convering from PS to PDF.  As I'm quite ignorant in font search and
>> selection in GS, I can't give further hint, unfortunately, other than
>> looking at GS errors or warning in the logs.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
> 
> I just checked the generated PS files and it looks like a LilyPond and not GS 
> problem.  The beginning of my PS file is:
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%Creator: LilyPond 2.17.0
> %%Pages: 1
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> %%Orientation: Portrait
> %%DocumentMedia: a4 595.28 841.89 80 () ()
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font BitstreamVeraSans-Roman
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-20
> %%EndComments
> %%BeginProlog
> 
> A normal LilyPond PS file generated from my input should read:
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%Creator: LilyPond 2.17.0
> %%Pages: 1
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> %%Orientation: Portrait
> %%DocumentMedia: a4 595.28 841.89 80 () ()
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-20
> %%EndComments
> %%BeginProlog
> 
> So somewhere it is substituting CenturySchL for Bitstream.  I'll try to do a 
> step by step comparison to find out where this happens...
> 
> Cheers,
> MS

I was incorrect in a previous e-mail about All_font_metrics::find_font - it's 
not called for Pango fonts.  Will do more snooping...

Cheers,
MS