Hello, Could someone please have a look at this problem? Am Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:02:58 +0200 schrieb Christian Weiske <cweiske@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, > > > Some PDFs use monspaced fonts but do not embed them. The german bank > "Volksbank" is one of those (they use "RFont0" up to "RFont8", and > their meaning is different from file to file, i.e. RFont3 may be > monospaced in one file, but normal spaced in the next. So no hard > mapping possible here). > > poppler queries fontconfig, by setting the name > and the spacing=mono flag. > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1152) > Unfortunately, fontconfig returns the default sans-serif font (On > Debian unstable and Ubuntu 20.04): > > > $ fc-match RFont3:spacing=mono > > DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" > > > Shouldn't fontconfig return a monospaced font if an unknown font name > is requested and the mono spacing flag is set? > > I managed to fix that with the following user configuration: > ---- > <?xml version='1.0'?> > <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> > <fontconfig> > <match target="pattern"> > <test name="spacing"> > <int>100</int> > </test> > <edit name="family" mode="prepend"> > <string>monospace</string> > </edit> > </match> > </fontconfig> > ---- > > > $ fc-match RFont3:spacing=mono > > DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" > > But I think that I should not need to do that manually. > > > There is an issue about "CourierStd" which was solved by adding an > alias from CourierStd to Courier, but which also would be solved by > respecting the monospace flag as shown above. > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues/262) > > > Should I open a bug report? > If yes, on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/ > or is this more a distribution problem, and I should report this to > Debian? > -- Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Weiske -=≡ Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 ≡=-
