Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - fc-cache doesn''t detect some PCF fonts

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 22:01 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote:
> I have a couple of PCF fonts which fc-cache doesn''t detect:
> 
> fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": skipping, 0 fonts, 2 dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0
dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0
dirs
FreeType only supports ISO 8859-1 and Unicode encoded PCF fonts; others
require application-level transcoding support which isn''t in
Fontconfig.

-keith

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I have a couple of PCF fonts which fc-cache doesn''t detect:

fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": skipping, 0 fonts, 2 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs

although there are two pcf.gz files in each of the 100dpi and 75dpi directories.
Mkfontdir does recognize the fonts, and I can select them in xfontsel, so I
guess the font files are valid.

I have several more PCF fonts on my system, which fc-cache does detect, so OTOH
I guess there is some problem with these particular fonts.

I would like to ask how it is possible to troubleshoot this. I understand
fc-cache uses FreeType to read the font files, so maybe this is actually a
FreeType problem, but how can I find out for sure?

In case anyone is interested, the font files are here:

http://movzx.net/term14-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
http://movzx.net/termB14-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz

TIA,

Andrei

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