On Tuesday 11 January 2005 2:32, Keith Packard wrote:> Any bitmap fonts without an ISO Latin-1 or Unicode encoding are currently > ignored by fontconfig as there is no transcoding support for these fonts > in FreeType or fontconfig. > > MonteCarlo.pcf.gz uses microsoft-cp1252, so you''ll never see that listed > by fontconfig.You could try convering the font encoding with fontforge. I believe that it can do that sort of thing. Frank
Around 15 o''clock on Jan 10, "Gilles Boccon-Gibod" wrote:> some bitmap fonts (BDF and PCF) fail to work with fontconfig. That means > that they are not listed by fc-list (they do not appear in the cache even > after fc-cache has been run).Any bitmap fonts without an ISO Latin-1 or Unicode encoding are currently ignored by fontconfig as there is no transcoding support for these fonts in FreeType or fontconfig. MonteCarlo.pcf.gz uses microsoft-cp1252, so you''ll never see that listed by fontconfig. The other two Proggy fonts work fine for me in both gnome applications (waterfall) and xterm (when forced to use fontconfig via -fa). Are you using the latest developer release of fontconfig (2.2.98)? -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050110/d5e0df92/attachment.pgp
Gilles Boccon-Gibod
2005-Nov-21 08:51 UTC
[Fontconfig] Fontconfig trouble with bitmap fonts
I''ve been struggling with this for a while now, and I I have not found
a
good explanation for this problem:
some bitmap fonts (BDF and PCF) fail to work with fontconfig. That means
that they are not listed by fc-list (they do not appear in the cache even
after fc-cache has been run).
*some* bitmap fonts work, obviously, as my Fedora Core 3 distribution
comes prepackaged with some that I use (ex: LucidaTypewriter).
But I am having problems with fonts created by ''bdftopcf''.
Here is what I observe:
a) I have 3 fonts, each originaly converted from a windows .FON file using
fnt2bdf, then bdftopcf.
b) One of the three fonts (ProggyTiny) works. fc-cache sees it, and it
gets listed in font.cache-1
c) The second font (ProggySquare) gets listed by fc-cache/fc-list, but
when listed in any gnome-based font selection dialog (such as the
"preferences" dialog, or the font selection dialog for
gnome-terminal), a
different font is displayed (not a bitmap font).
d) The third one (MonteCarlo) does not even get listed (when I run
fc-cache, it gets ignored and does not appear in fonts.cache-1). I know
that the file gets read, because ''strace'' shows that the
process open and
reads from the file.
e) I know the fonts "work", because I can display them with
''ftview'', and
they show up with ''xfontsel'', and I can use them in
''xterm'' for instance.
they show up with ''xfontsel'', and I can use them in
''xterm'' for instance.
f) There is nothing special added to my fonts.conf or local.conf
HELP! this is driving me crazy! Does anyone know what may be causing this
(a fontconfig bug, a problem with the font file, something else?). I''m
attaching the three fonts in case someone wants to try.
Here''s what''s listed in fonts.cache-1 for ProggyTiny and
ProggySquare:
Here''s what''s listed in fonts.cache-1 for ProggyTiny and
ProggySquare:
"ProggySquare.pcf" 0
"ProggySquare-8:style=Regular:slant=0:weight=80:width=100:pixelsize=10.625:spacing=100:foundry=unknown:antialias=False:index=0:outline=False:scalable=False:dpi=96:charset|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu:fontversion=0:fontformat=PCF"
"ProggyTiny.pcf" 0
"ProggyTiny-8:style=Regular:slant=0:weight=80:width=100:pixelsize=10.625:spacing=100:foundry=unknown:antialias=False:index=0:outline=False:scalable=False:dpi=96:charset|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu:fontversion=0:fontformat=PCF"
|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu:fontversion=0:fontformat=PCF"
Here''s what I get with FC_DEBUG when I select ProggySquare:
FcConfigSubstitute donePattern 19 of 32
antialias: FcFalse(s)
charset: set(s)
dpi: 96(f)(s)
family: "ProggySquare"(s)
file: "/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts/ProggySquare.pcf"(s)
fontformat: "PCF"(s)
fontversion: 0(i)(s)
foundry: "unknown"(s)
index: 0(i)(s)
lang:
aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu(s)
outline: FcFalse(s)
pixelsize: 10.625(f)(s)
scalable: FcFalse(s)
size: 8(f)(s)
slant: 0(i)(s)
spacing: 100(i)(s)
style: "Regular"(s)
weight: 80(i)(s)
width: 100(i)(s)
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