On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:03:39 +0100 Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es> wrote:
... > OK, so let's recap: > > You print the Hebrew Wikipedia homepage with "print to file" in > iceweasel. You get a PDF with misaligned Hebrew characters (kerning > seems to be off) and this font information: > > name type emb sub uni object ID > ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- > FrankRuehlCLM Type 1 yes no yes 5 0 > FrankRuehlCLM Type 1 yes no yes 7 0 > BitstreamVeraSerif CID TrueType yes no yes 37 0 > > I do the same thing and I get a PDF with properly aligned Hebrew > characters and this font information: > > name type emb sub uni object ID > ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- > TimesNewRomanBold CID TrueType yes no yes 5 0 > TimesNewRoman CID TrueType yes no yes 7 0 > DejaVuSans CID TrueType yes no yes 38 0 > > I checked my "good" PDF with pdfedit and the Hebrew characters are > indeed typeset in TimesNewRoman and TimesNewRomanBold. DejaVuSans is > used only for the extra information in headers and footers (URL, page > number, date, time). Your "bad" PDF uses the FrankRuehlCLM font for the > Hebrew text and BitstreamVeraSerif for headers and footers. > > I think there could be a problem with the FrankRuehlCLM font (package > "culmus") or pango has a bug with Type 1 fonts. You could try to > downgrade libpango1.0-0 and friends to their Lenny versions (provided > that this does not break anything else on your system, of course) or you > could remove the culmus package so that icewesel is forced to use e.g. > the DejaVuSerif font for Hebrew passages. (The DejaVu fonts are extended > versions of their BitstreamVera ancestors; they include Hebrew > charcters.) Okay. So I tried removing culmus, and now a reasonably legible and normal looking, if not particularly attractive (although that may be purely subjective, and in the eye of the beholder) PDF is generated, for which pdffonts shows: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- FreeSerifBold CID TrueType yes no yes 5 0 FreeSerif CID TrueType yes no yes 7 0 BitstreamVeraSerif CID TrueType yes no yes 35 0 I tried using fc-match on these font names, as you showed me in our first iteration of this thread, but I'm a bit confused by the output: ~$ fc-match FreeSerif FreeSerif.ttf: "FreeSerif" "Mittel" This seems to indicate that FreeSerif comes from the FreeSerif.ttf file, which is from the ttf-freefont package. OTOH: ~$ fc-match FreeSerifBold Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman" Does this mean that FreeSerifBold is in Vera.ttf and not in ttf-freefont? But: ~$ dpkg -L ttf-freefont | grep FreeSerif /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifItalic.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf I find all this stuff fairly baffling. Regarding your other suggestion about downgrading libpango, trying to do that requires removing some packages that are important to me, or doing a fairly significant looking downgrade of a number of packages, so I'm going to hold off on that, at least for now. Thanks much! Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
