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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [HELP] Re: [kde] kpdf has no fonts
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2005-03-21 5:40:14
Message-ID: 423E5E3E.80809 () acm ! org
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Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Diumenge 20 Març 2005 20:11, James Richard Tyrer va escriure:
> 
>> One simple question to help with support:
>> 
>> Does KPDF get its fonts through Qt (which uses FontConfig) or 
>> through the old X system?
> 
> 
> Neither. It uses fontconfig natively and if that fails (hardly ever 
> does, i mean it surely won't find the right font because you 
> problably don't have it but is capablñe of getting a good enough 
> substitute)

I'm not sure that this is the best option for the 14 base PostScript fonts:

Times-Roman
Times-Italic
Times-Bold
Times-BoldItalic
Helvetica
Helvetica-Oblique	
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
Courier
Courier-Oblique
Courier-Bold
Courier-BoldOblique
Symbol
ZapfDingbats

To best emulate the rendering of Adobe Acrobat reader, I suggest that 
there should be specific substitutions for these rather than leaving it 
to FontConfig.  For the first 12 it should use:

TimesNewRomanPSMT
TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT
ArialMT
Arial-ItalicMT
Arial-BoldMT
Arial-BoldItalicMT
CourierNewPSMT
CourierNewPS-ItalicMT
CourierNewPS-BoldMT
CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT

if found and if these are not found, it should use the URW clones.  Yes, 
I mean that it should NOT use those (old) fonts even if found, it should 
substitute the new fonts as Acrobat Reader would do.

For the last two, it should use the exact font or if not found it should 
use the URW clones.

> uses the xpdf way, that is, doing a lookup in a simple substitution 
> table that uses ghostscript fonts.

Does it use the: "/etc/xpdfrc" file for this lookup?  Or, is there a 
"kpdf.rc" file somewhere.  I didn't find one under

	$KDEDIR/share/apps/kpdf.

> BTW this is obviously NOT the list for asking such a specific 
> question, you should either write the mantainer(s) directly (Enrico 
> or me or even Jakubs that is the fontconfig code responsable) or 
> using b.k.o, you can not hope every mantainer of every kde 
> application reads kde-devel

When I am not able to help someone on one of the two support lists, I
ask here in the hope that someone will know the answer.  I see nothing
wrong with this method.

Actually, when a user has a problem that is not easily solved, it can, 
and often does, become a developer issue.

> As for the other mail having Acrobat Reader will not help as Acrobat 
> Reader does not installs it's fonts to use with fontconfig (or at 
> least does not here) so Acrobat fonts are invisible for us.

You have to install the fonts that come with Acrobat Reader 3.x for
Windows in your (X fonts) Type1 directory along with the AFM files from 
Adobe.  Then it works at least it works for me.

Thanks for the assistance.

-- 
JRT
 
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