From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Evan Straw <evan.straw99@gmail.com>
Cc: 40390@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40390: Rendering problems when using fonts from Guix on foreign distro
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:05:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blo5f38u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blo9iydd.fsf@gmail.com> (Evan Straw's message of "Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:35:58 -0700")
Hi Evan,
Evan Straw <evan.straw99@gmail.com> skribis:
> I have Guix installed on a foreign distro (Ubuntu 19.10) as a package
> manager, and I am attempting to use fonts installed through Guix for
> applications installed from Guix, such as Emacs and keepassxc. I have
> installed fontconfig and a few font packages. However, I am noticing
> that these fonts seem to be interfering with fonts installed via the
> system's package manager (APT) and are causing rendering problems in
> non-Guix applications such as evince.
>
> The font packages I have installed from Guix are as follows:
>
> evan@virtualplaza:~$ guix package --list-installed | grep font
> font-ubuntu 0.83 out /gnu/store/6ydn8a96n2zmmrhjckqklfmg83frwl9w-font-ubuntu-0.83
> font-gnu-freefont-ttf 20120503 out /gnu/store/bp0hagiy6j8r0x11r4arsyv7k61lyqfk-font-gnu-freefont-ttf-20120503
> font-dejavu 2.37 out /gnu/store/yr42nyxrqkh89fanvii82br6qil4zcbx-font-dejavu-2.37
> gs-fonts 8.11 out /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11
> font-adobe-source-han-sans 1.004 jp /gnu/store/z9mgamhzwnh73w3y7q9flg54gmzr9kx7-font-adobe-source-han-sans-1.004-jp
> fontconfig 2.13.1 out /gnu/store/rkq6ipys8hf5hw66jkzzw4nfr6ncq96a-fontconfig-2.13.1
> font-abattis-cantarell 0.111 out /gnu/store/l0h8n4jn0xhj942gdh28i3rvbbywi613-font-abattis-cantarell-0.111
>
>
> However, when I open a document in evince, the terminal spits out the
> following errors about "cairo scaled fonts":
>
> (evince:19449): Pango-WARNING **: 10:28:58.135: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Ubuntu 11'
You may need to update the Fontconfig font cache by running:
fc-cache -fv
(See
<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts>.)
Does that help?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-02 17:35 bug#40390: Rendering problems when using fonts from Guix on foreign distro Evan Straw
2020-04-06 8:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-04-22 19:29 ` Evan Straw
2020-04-22 19:53 ` Leo Famulari
2020-04-22 19:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
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