On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:43 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 17:46:23 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:09:09 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > However, I don't recall ever seeing these "DEDVIP+f-0-0" kinds of names > > > before. Maybe you are still missing some other relatively important > > > font-related package. Here is list of the ones that I have installed: > > > http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer/celejar/font-related-packages.txt ... > I realized that the Debian homepage is maybe not the best test case, due > to the many non-latin characters that are required by the language names > at the bottom of the page. Maybe the font names will be more conclusive > if we confine our tests to latin character sets. I have now set up a > simple font sample page here: > > http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer/celejar/font-samples.html > > If you still want to experiment with this a bit more then you can print > this page to a PDF and compare font names once again. I see these names > listed in the output of pdffonts: > > BitstreamVeraSansBold > BitstreamVeraSans > BitstreamVeraSerif > URWBookmanL > Courier > NimbusSansL > URWPalladioL > NimbusRomanNo9L > AndaleMono > Arial > ArialBlack > ComicSansMS > CourierNew > Georgia > Impact > TimesNewRoman > Verdana > Webdings > > I think you should get the same output for all the postscript fonts > (URWBookmanL, NimbusSansL = Helvetica, Courier, URWPalladioL = Palatino, > NimbusRomanNo9L = Times). It will be interesting to see which fonts are > used for the MS font names on your system; the ttf-liberation fonts > should at least take care of Arial, TimesNewRoman and CourierNew. Hmm, I still get unhelpful output: $ pdffonts PDF/A_simple_test_page_for_common_fonts.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- XXCIFJ+f-1-0 TrueType yes yes yes 10 0 QEHNHK+f-8-0 TrueType yes yes yes 40 0 UFQSLH+f-3-0 Type 1C yes yes no 14 0 ITPEVV+f-0-0 TrueType yes yes yes 8 0 PGUGBG+f-10-0 TrueType yes yes yes 44 0 VRBBWM+f-9-0 TrueType yes yes yes 42 0 HSAEUE+f-6-0 Type 1C yes yes no 32 0 VNZQXL+f-2-0 TrueType yes yes yes 12 0 [none] Type 3 yes no yes 22 0 [none] Type 3 yes no yes 39 0 [none] Type 3 yes no yes 31 0 > Florian | Most of the fonts look quite good. The exceptions are Courier, Helvetica and Times, which are once again blocky and pixellated. Here's the PDF I created: http://lizzie.freehostia.com/A_simple_test_page_for_common_fonts.pdf And here's a detail, viewed in Evince at 400%: http://lizzie.freehostia.com/font-page-400.jpg Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
