[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#573983: Yet again some more information...

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hi all,

Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> One thing that I don't understand however (and if somebody knows why,
> I would be grateful for an explanation) is why fontconfig/imagemagick
> doesn't see the ghostscripts fonts (and why it's necessary to
> explicitly include them in type.xml).

  Argh ! I was just writing up a long mail explaining that, in part.
I'll send it along in a few minutes.

  The thing is that the font "helvetica" doesn't exist as such for
fontconfig, but through something like a matching mechanism:

~ fc-match helvetica
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"

  The *real* font behind is Nimbus-Sans (in my case, but see the mail
I'll send in a minute).

  To do well, on would have to use the equivalent of fc-match somewhere
around the place where imagemagick falls back onto Helvetica as default.
I don't have any idea of how to do that, but I'm pretty sure upstream would.

> But well, from what I see, it's just necessary a new upload reverting the patch.
> Agreed on this?

  I'm currently trying using Nimbus-Sans as a fix; it should help us
getting it working, I think, as a quick fix I'll keep you posted (in the
long mail) as soon as the build is finished.

> Thank you very much!
> And sorry for the mess.

  Don't bother; packages sometimes show much more intricate dependencies
as one would ever had expected...

  Cheers !

	Vincent

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