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barthel

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From: Saint Charles, MO

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 25

VLC unmatched subtitle font

While running VLC from the command line, I saw the following messages:

[ass] fontconfig: cannot find font 'Fontin Sans Rg', falling back to 'FontinSans-Bold'
[ass] fontconfig: cannot find font 'Fontin Sans Rg', falling back to 'FontinSans-BoldItalic'

Using strings on the mkv file, I found the following:

Style: Default,Fontin Sans Rg,48,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H001C0948,&HDC151626,-1,0,0,0,98,100,0,0,1,2.9,1.4,2,140,140,42,0
Style: DefaultAlt,Fontin Sans Rg,48,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H003C1A30,&HDC261518,-1,0,0,0,98,100,0,0,1,2.9,1.4,2,140,140,42,0
Style: DefaultTop,Fontin Sans Rg,48,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H001C0948,&HDC151626,-1,0,0,0,98,100,0,0,1,2.9,1.4,8,140,140,37,0
Style: Sign,Fontin Sans Rg,48,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H001C0948,&H00151626,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,0,0,5,0,0,0,0
...
Fontin_Sans_B.otfF`
application/x-truetype-fontF\ a
...
Fontin_Sans_BI.otfF`
application/x-truetype-fontF\ ^

If I'm interpreting this correctly, the mkv has Fontin Sans Bold & Fontin Sans Bold-Italic embedded within, but the style declarations are calling for the family name "Fontin Sans Rg", not an actual font name.

I happen to have Fontin Sans Regular installed on my system. Is there a way for me to get fontconfig to recognize the other Fontin Sans Rg family members? I've read the font substitution portions of the fontconfig documentation many times (including Keith Packard's original document), but it's still pretty opaque to me. For example, why is Fontin Sans Bold matched the first time, but Fontin Sans Bold-Italic matched the second time? If I test with fc-match:

$ fc-match "Fontin Sans Rg"
Fontin_Sans_R_45b.otf: "Fontin Sans" "Regular"

Worst case scenario, I just accept that the mkv is badly formed and live with it. But I would love to get this nit picked... Thanks.

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