[Bug 904043] Re: installed fonts are not actually available for use

[Ma Xiaojun]

** Also affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904043

Title:
  installed fonts are not actually available for use

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “xfonts-100dpi” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The xfonts-75dpi package is also affected.

  I installed ubuntu and found that certain standard X fonts such as
  adobe-courier were not available.   Curiously, installing the xfonts-
  75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages did *not* fix the problem.  The fonts
  remained unavailable.  They did not show up with xfontsel and when
  used (e.g. by xterm -fn) they are subsitututed by other fonts.  Even
  more curiously, a bit of probing revealed that the font files were
  actually present in /usr/share/fonts/X11.

  Based on this article from 2008, it appears that this is a long
  standing and pervasive problem:

  http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2008/02/where_did_the_courier_and_helv_1.html

  I followed the method described in this article and added

     <dir>/usr/share/fonts/Type1</dir>
     <dir>usr/share/fonts/X11</dir> 

  to the file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf and found that this
  made the fonts available.

  So in short, the installer for these fonts is broken.  It installs the
  files but does not make the necessary changes to the font
  configuration files so that the fonts can actually be used.

  Description:    Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:        11.10

  xfonts-100dpi:
    Installed: 1:1.0.3
    Candidate: 1:1.0.3
    Version table:
   *** 1:1.0.3 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  adrian> apt-cache policy xfonts-75dpi
  xfonts-75dpi:
    Installed: 1:1.0.3
    Candidate: 1:1.0.3
    Version table:
   *** 1:1.0.3 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic-pae 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Dec 13 20:09:49 2011
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: xfonts-100dpi
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-10 (3 days ago)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/904043/+subscriptions