From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 18:59:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520225915.GA14567@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imgqc0c2.fsf@devup.no>
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:28:13PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> The print infrastructure (CUPS, ghostscript) does not use Pango, so I
> think gs-fonts still work there.
>
> Might be difficult to work with when the end user applications don't
> recognize them though.
>
> What do you expect from a "real fix"?
My idea of a "real fix" would be for the postscript fonts (gs-fonts) to
still be visible in applications that used to show them. It's probably
not something for us to do in Guix, however, since the problem seems to
be that Pango no longer supports them.
Thanks for pushing your fix!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-17 14:50 [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts Marius Bakke
2020-05-19 15:50 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-20 11:28 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-20 22:59 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-05-20 22:00 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-20 12:06 ` zimoun
2020-05-20 13:55 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-20 21:03 ` zimoun
2020-05-20 21:41 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-20 23:35 ` zimoun
2020-05-21 12:46 ` Marius Bakke
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