Bug#368733: libsynfig0: 368733: diagnosis

[Paul Wise]

Hi bug,

Looking at lyr_freetype::new_face in lyr_freetype.cpp and printing the
newfont parameter, it appears that synfig is just joining together the
font face name and a path and mushing .ttf on the end, doing this for
several paths. According [1], that probably isn't the right approach,
since font files generally aren't named after their face name. IMO, it
should be using fontconfig to map a font face to a font file. I'll take
this up with the original author and or ask the fontconfig/freetype
maintainers how this should be done.

     1. http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_New_Face

-- 
bye,
pabs

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