Debian Bug report logs - #645876
fontconfig: Nimbus Sans L condensed only in libreoffice 3.4

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Pavel Reznicek <reznicek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: fontconfig: Nimbus Sans L condensed only in libreoffice 3.4

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:40:07 +0200

Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.8.0-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

  I am experiencing a bug that was closed long time ago:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243329

Nimbus Sans L offers only condensed variants. However, it happens for me
only in libreoffice (and seems like only in version 3.4). Workaround mentioned
in that old report - removing the font files of the nimbus sans condensed
fonts - "fixes" the problem. But it would be good to understand whats
wrong. Is there some more information I can provide to "debug" the problem ?

Thanks,
Pavel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers squeeze
  APT policy: (950, 'squeeze'), (950, 'sid'), (840, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (840, 'testing'), (740, 'unstable'), (738, 'experimental'), (540, 'proposed-updates'), (540, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64-ipnp-n22a-7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fontconfig depends on:
ii  fontconfig-config  2.8.0-3         
ii  libc6              2.13-21         
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7         
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-3         
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.6-2         
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

fontconfig recommends no packages.

Versions of packages fontconfig suggests:
ii  defoma  0.11.12

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 645876@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: BubuXP <bubuxp@gmail.com>

To: 645876@bugs.debian.org

Cc: reznicek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz, mhatta@debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Nimbus Sans L condensed only in libreoffice 3.4

Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:50:11 +0100

tags 645876 patch
thanks


> I am experiencing a bug that was closed long time ago:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243329
>
> Nimbus Sans L offers only condensed variants. However, it happens for me
> only in libreoffice (and seems like only in version 3.4). Workaround mentioned
> in that old report - removing the font files of the nimbus sans condensed
> fonts - "fixes" the problem. But it would be good to understand whats
> wrong. Is there some more information I can provide to "debug" the problem ?


I had the opposite problem: I cannot find the condensed variants in
libreoffice 4.1.4.2 (Sid).

It seems this is a widespread bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50855

I found a simple workaround for this (see attachment): using
fontconfig, I made a new font family I called "Nimbus Sans L
Condensed" to include the condensed variants and separate them from
the normal "Nimbus Sans L" family. Place the attached file in a
directory read by fontconfig (like /etc/fonts/conf.d/ for example),
then rebuild font cache (with 'fc-cache -f').

I don't know why but libreoffice still won't display the changes,
maybe it uses an internal font cache? I resolved the easy way by
removing the ~/.config/libreoffice/ directory, but probably there's a
better way to do this.

The 'gsfonts' package maintainer could ponder the validity of this
workaround and maybe including it in the package (or it's a fontconfig
concern?).

Message #17 received at 645876@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: BubuXP <bubuxp@gmail.com>

To: 645876@bugs.debian.org

Cc: reznicek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz, mhatta@debian.org

Subject: Re: Nimbus Sans L condensed only in libreoffice 3.4

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:16:58 +0100

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I don't know why but attachment was not sent. Retrying, plus file
content here to be sure.


$ cat 81-nimbus.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

<!-- Create a new family to incluse Nimbus Sans L
     Condensed variants -->

<match target="scan">
    <test name="postscriptname" compare="eq">
        <string>NimbusSanL-ReguCond</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign">
        <string>Nimbus Sans L Condensed</string>
    </edit>
    <edit name="style" mode="assign">
        <string>Regular</string>
    </edit>
</match>

<match target="scan">
    <test name="postscriptname" compare="eq">
        <string>NimbusSanL-BoldCond</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign">
        <string>Nimbus Sans L Condensed</string>
    </edit>
    <edit name="style" mode="assign">
        <string>Bold</string>
    </edit>
</match>

<match target="scan">
    <test name="postscriptname" compare="eq">
        <string>NimbusSanL-ReguCondItal</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign">
        <string>Nimbus Sans L Condensed</string>
    </edit>
    <edit name="style" mode="assign">
        <string>Regular Italic</string>
    </edit>
</match>

<match target="scan">
    <test name="postscriptname" compare="eq">
        <string>NimbusSanL-BoldCondItal</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign">
        <string>Nimbus Sans L Condensed</string>
    </edit>
    <edit name="style" mode="assign">
        <string>Bold Italic</string>
    </edit>
</match>

</fontconfig>

[81-nimbus.conf (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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