[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662660: Bug#662660: cups-filters: Please drop ttf-freefonts and use fontconfig to find the best-matching similar font

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hey Martin and Till,

Am 06.03.2012 13:55, schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Thanks for the patch! Till (CC'ed) tried it, and said that while the
> job completes without error when freefont is not installed, the
> output is unreadable. So perhaps the fontconfig selection is not tight
> enough on similar fonts?

cool, thank you so much for trying it out!

Unfortunately, I have not yet found out how to tell fontconfig to 
return *only* TrueType fonts. If you have e.g. gsfonts installed, then 
fontconfig might return the Type1 Nimbus Mono font when asked for the 
best replacement for FreeMono. But I am glad it's at least not 
crashing. ;)

  - Fabian