Bug 38

Summary:	fontconfig cant find gz compressed fonts
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	N/A <farmboy1>
Component:	library	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	other
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description N/A 2003-02-26 11:45:32 UTC

when trying to run an app that uses fontconfig it complains that it cant find any fonts.
I have checked the fonts.conf that comes with the package, the path is set correctly.
gunzip'ing the fonts will make fontconfig work again.

Comment 1 Keith Packard 2003-02-26 11:51:33 UTC

fontconfig depends on freetype support for .pcf.gz font files; it's likely your
freetype doesn't have support for these fonts.

Comment 2 N/A 2003-02-26 12:26:42 UTC

ok i waswrong, the issue is not with gzip compressed fonts but with fonts in subdirectories.
the standard font.conf defines /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts as dir to search fonts
but this doesnt seem to work.
All subdirs are listed with zero fonts in the cache file.
I guess its because there are some subdirs that dont contain valid fonts or something like it.
defining all font dirs in the config file works.
the other solution worked because i copied the some of the fonts to /usr/share/fonts without subdirs.

Comment 3 Keith Packard 2003-02-28 21:41:04 UTC

There were plenty of issues with fonts in subdirectories in old font config
bits, I think those are all fixed now.  You may have to run fc-cache -f to make
things work again, but I hope not.

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