[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#663192: cups-filters: Please add support for embedding of Opentype fonts

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.4-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Hi,

one might consider OpenType as the font format of the future.

As Debian is currently switching to format-independent package names for fonts,
re-evaluation of the best suitable font format is pending for many fonts
(since it will not make sense to package fonts in both TrueType and OpenType
formats). One of the main reasons to stay with the TrueType format for e.g. the
GNU FreeFont package is that it's still the prefered font for the texttopdf
filter and that it *must* be in TrueType format for this filter to be able to
embed it, c.f. <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662924#40>.

The same applies to the other fonts providing valid alternatives for the
Courier type, i.e. DejaVu and Liberation. We are bound to have those fonts in
TrueType format as long as the texttopdf filter is unable to embed OpenType
fonts. Once we switch the fonts to more enhanced font formats, they become
useless for the texttopdf filter.

 - Fabian



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