Re: fonts used by evince
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:25:55 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 16:11:49 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote:
>>
>> > - symbol.ttf which comes with cernroot is behaving strangely
>> > using it for displaying causes wrong displaying of non embedded
>> > greek letters.
>>
>> The behaviour you get is similar to mine, despite in my case the source
>> of the symbol font was different than yours.
>
> I wonder whether it is. His has "Copyright URW Software, Copyright 1997
> by URW" in the file.
What file? You mean the .ttf font? :-?
When I open "symbol.ttf" from MC I see "The Monotype Corporation plc/Time
Solutions Inc. 1990-1992. All Rights ReservedSymbolRegular... blah, blah"
> This font is menace on a Debian system. As both of you have found out
> it needs to be put somewhere where fontconfig does not look. Examining
> it with fontforge reveals the unicode values for the glyphs are
> incorrect. Not that the GPL version of the same font in wine has
> anything to boast about - it too suffers from an identical defect.
Well, as I already explained, the same TrueType font works well in Wheezy
so to my eyes is not the font that is a menace but a bug located
elsewhere in both Squeeze and Lenny :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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