Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Substituted fonts and Bug 1057

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,

> Yes, (presuming you mean "fc-match Arial"). Just Nimbus or Nimbus 
> Sans?

amb@polonius:~/camelot/XaraLX$ fc-match Arial
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"

I know there have been complaints that it doesn't map to Vera.

> On SUSE you get SUSE-Sans because the default fontconfig script
> maps Arial to an AMT font that is not installed, which means that 
> Arial is mapped to the global default, which is SUSE Sans.

That would appear to be a distro bug - mapping fonts to things
that aren't there makes no sense.

> SUSE Sans
> is not a Helvetica lookalike though. Nimbus Sans is a much better 
> match.
>
> Font mapping can be improved significantly by creating a local 
> fontconfig file that contains the required mappings. It might make 
> sense to tell our users how to do that. For instance, my local file 
> ~/.fonts.conf reads:

Sure - but we should not expect users to have to do this.

Alex