Bug 107138 - Default Alias for ZapfDingbats font
Summary: Default Alias for ZapfDingbats font
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: fontconfig
Classification: Unclassified
Component: conf (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: fontconfig-bugs
QA Contact: Behdad Esfahbod
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Reported: 2018-07-06 11:35 UTC by Hanno Böck
Modified: 2018-07-06 11:42 UTC (History)
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Description Hanno Böck 2018-07-06 11:35:28 UTC
I recently had an issue with a misrendered PDF, the reason was that my system was unable to properly replace the (proprietary) ZapfDingbats font (see #107002).

It turns out this is a rather common problem, see e.g. here:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15833

It seems by default fontconfig comes with no replacement alias for it. Ideally this should be fixed in fontconfig.

Interestingly the Changelog already contains a note that this has been fixed before:
commit 254232f47eaea0d03d2b1c2405d4ded5fd09142e
Author: Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>
Date:   Wed Mar 7 18:16:35 2012 +0900

    Bug 19128 - Handling whitespace in aliases

    Add a workaround alias for Dingbats.

 conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)


It probably got lost due to some restructuring, the file 30-urw-aliases.conf is no longer part of fontconfig.
Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2018-07-06 11:42:01 UTC
30-urw-alias.conf has been moved to upstream repo of URW fonts[1]. there are nothing we can do here. if you have any proglems, please contact URW upstream then.

[1] https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/blob/master/fontconfig/urw-d050000l.conf


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