Re: Ghostscript 9.15

[David Kastrup]

Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 2015-03-24 um 20:35 schrieb Masamichi HOSODA <address@hidden>:
>
>> I've succeed to upgrade GUB's pango to 1.28.3.
>> https://github.com/trueroad/gub/tree/pango-1.28
>> 
>> Then, I've checked some environments.
>> The results are following:
>> 
>>  linux-64 binary on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit:
>>    ligatured pdf is generated.
>> 
>>  linux-x86 binary on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit:
>>    ligatured pdf is generated.
>> 
>>  linux-x86 binary on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32 bit (minimal install):
>>    Serif font (CenturySchL-Roma) is ligatured.
>>    Sans-serif font (TakaoPGothic) is non-ligatured.
>> 
>>    I think that the reason is that
>>    the system doesn't have ligature possible sans-serif fonts.
>>    In other environment, selected sans-serif font is DejaVuSans.
>
> So that’s probably a matter of the font, not of its style - not every
> font defines ligatures, and the name „TakaoPGothic“ tells me its main
> focus would be Japanese (is this true?), so the designers probably
> didn’t put so much work in features of Latin script.
>
> Would you care to try a different font?

Well, why would the sans-serif font be TakaoPGothic in the first place?
I think we should be using the same default fonts on every installation.

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David Kastrup