merge request opened Re: libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions: pandoc needs vfs_fonts.js

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hi Andreas,

On 24.08.20 15:16, Steffen Möller wrote:
> On 24.08.20 11:08, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi Steffen,
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 04:17:37AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
>>> @Andreas,
>>>
>>> good news: I made quite some inroads on why pigx-rnaseq does not work.
>>> But that is for another email.
>>>
>>> My current hurdle is that vfs_fonts.js is missed by pandoc:
>>>
>>> pandoc:
>>> /usr/lib/R/site-library/DT/htmlwidgets/lib/datatables-extensions/Buttons/js/vfs_fonts.js:
>>> openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
>>>
>>> This file should have been located next to pdfmake in
>>>
>>> /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables-extensions/pdfmake/build
>>>
>>> but
>>>
>>> Files-Excluded: */buttons.flash*
>>>                 */*.swf
>>>                 */vfs_fonts.js
>>>
>>> does not want that. There are suggestions on
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48835055/pdfmake-cant-find-the-font-files-on-vfs
>>> to create one's own variant, but this should then happen within that
>>> JavaScript package, right?
>> May be you file a bug report to datatables-extensions upstream to provide
>> a free font version?
> Here is the original
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/naoa/pdfmake/master/build/vfs_fonts.js
>
> and this GenShinGothic has a "non-commercial use only" license, indeed.
>
> https://en.m.fontke.com/font/23789742/detail/
>
> I just submitted https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968944.
>
> On a sidenote, Rebecca reopened
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=927787 since
> DataTables apparently has a new repository on github where each
> subdirectory is presented as its very own package, like
> https://github.com/DataTables/Select or (more prominently)
> https://github.com/DataTables/Buttons .
>
> I also checked
> https://github.com/DataTables/pdfmake/blob/master/build/vfs_fonts.js
> which now just ships with a an embedded "LICENSE.txt" and no font which
> I presume to be fine to redistribute. I'll see if this also works with
> the current version and am not unlikely to close my own bug that way.
>
> As Rebecca stated, this new DataTables repository also affects
> snakemake. I consider it remote to our cause for now. Would not mind a
> "JavaScript" Tab in our Spreadsheet.

I added a patch that adds the future free version of vfs_fonts.js.
Please kindly review and merge.

Best,

Steffen