[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#670055: cups-filters: Printing a text file fails when Liberation is the only TrueType font available

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am Sonntag, den 22.04.2012, 17:16 +0100 schrieb Brian Potkin:
> From comment #55 in bug report #662660 I'd expect a text file to be printed with
> the mono-spaced Liberation font. Using a backend similar to the one described in
> the cups-filters README the output file in /tmp was empty and the error_log (which
> is attached) reported "No usable font available". Adding the ttf-dejavu-core package
> restores the capability to print text files.

Indeed, it is expected to print the page with LiberationSans. I assume
that we are talking about regular text here, with no "special" or e.g.
Chinese glyphs?

What does "fc-match -s FreeMono" give on your system?

 - Fabian