[cairo] Scaled fixed size fonts

Fred Kiefer fredkiefer at gmx.de
Mon Jan 20 00:16:40 PST 2014


Am 20.01.2014 um 00:37 schrieb James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>:

>>>>>> "FK" == Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> FK> fc-match "Adobe Helvetica"
> 
> Note that only the bitmap faces Adobe donated to X11 are named "Adobe
> Helvetica".  The type1 faces are just Helvetica.
> 
> One can confirm by looking at the (gratis) afm files Adobe published,
> where HV______.afm says:
> 
>  FontName Helvetica
>  FullName Helvetica
>  FamilyName Helvetica
> 
> So this is a more common search:
> 
>  :; fc-match "Helvetica"
>  n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"

In what way would this search help to reproduce or understand the issue with bitmap fonts that started this thread?

Fred


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