Keith Packard
2005-Nov-21 08:50 UTC
[Fontconfig] Unavailable foundry prefers fonts without any foundry value
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112 A pattern including a foundry which isn''t present in the configuration ends up preferring fonts which have no known foundry set rather than a font which otherwise matches the pattern. $ fc-match courier:foundry=adobe FreeMono.ttf: "FreeMono" "Medium" $ fc-match courier cour.pfa: "Courier" "Regular" (the last font has foundry "ibm" on my machine) This seems wrong to me; but of course ''courier'' is a special case as many foundries supply a font with that family name. The question boils down to the precedence among the matching values, we placed FC_FOUNDRY ahead of FC_FAMILY before the weak/strong value distinction was created. Can anyone think of a scenario where the foundry name would be more important than the family name? Moving the foundry below the weak family binding solves this problem nicely. -keith