Re: fonts used by evince
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 17:42:26 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> 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? :-?
Of course.
> When I open "symbol.ttf" from MC I see "The Monotype Corporation plc/Time
> Solutions Inc. 1990-1992. All Rights ReservedSymbolRegular... blah, blah"
You have a different file from Paul then.
> > 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 :-)
Where can we download this file to test?
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