If the x fonts from packages like xfonts-75dpi are installed then fontconfig will suggest fonts like helvB10.pcf.gz which match the family name of "Helvetica" perfectly. However, these fonts are completely unsuitable for use in pdfs.
Is that with the new fontconfig code? I changed the old fontconfig code a thousand times to get workaround this problem.
It was with the new fontconfig code
Well, IMHO that's a problem with your fontconfig configuration, you should do something like <match target="pattern"> <test name="prefer_outline"> <bool>true</bool> </test> <test name="family"> <string>Helvetica</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same"> <string>Nimbus Sans L</string> </edit> </match> That is, fontconfig can not do magic, you should help it. BTW Mandriva is already doing that in their default fontconfig configuration so bug your distribution to improve their fontconfig configuration. I think we should put in the wiki some/most/all of the rules needed for fontconfig so that it behaves like the old hardcoded way as a recommendation for distributions, what do you think?
could this lead to error messages like Error: Couldn't find a font for 'Times Roman' some font thing failed Error: Couldn't find a font for 'Times Italic' some font thing failed Error: Couldn't find a font for 'Times Bold' some font thing failed given by evince? they even lead it to crash in the end
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4030 ***
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