From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: bug#40390: Rendering problems when using fonts from Guix on foreign distro Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:05:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87blo5f38u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87blo9iydd.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLMlj-0000eZ-2N for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:06:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLMle-00018E-5B for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:06:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLMle-000187-29 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:06:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jLMld-0001hc-S3 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:06:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87blo9iydd.fsf@gmail.com> (Evan Straw's message of "Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:35:58 -0700") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Evan Straw Cc: 40390@debbugs.gnu.org Hi Evan, Evan Straw 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-ubu= ntu-0.83 > font-gnu-freefont-ttf 20120503 out /gnu/store/bp0hagiy6j8r0x11r4arsyv7k61= lyqfk-font-gnu-freefont-ttf-20120503 > font-dejavu 2.37 out /gnu/store/yr42nyxrqkh89fanvii82br6qil4zcbx-font-dej= avu-2.37 > gs-fonts 8.11 out /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.= 11 > font-adobe-source-han-sans 1.004 jp /gnu/store/z9mgamhzwnh73w3y7q9flg54gm= zr9kx7-font-adobe-source-han-sans-1.004-jp > fontconfig 2.13.1 out /gnu/store/rkq6ipys8hf5hw66jkzzw4nfr6ncq96a-fontcon= fig-2.13.1 > font-abattis-cantarell 0.111 out /gnu/store/l0h8n4jn0xhj942gdh28i3rvbbywi= 613-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 sc= aled 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 = .) Does that help? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.