infinality-bundle: good looking fonts made (even) easier

brebs · 2015-03-19 21:39:34

elipp wrote:

Just to let you know, infinality-bundle (freetype2, fontconfig, cairo) seems to mess up LilyPond's ghostscript-driven PostScript to PDF conversion stage. Says /undefinedresult in --glyphshow-- and fails.

Hah - see old bug report.

Try recompiling ghostscript as I suggested, rather than the big bundled-libs removal that Arch currently uses.

The only safe route is to build with our bundled (patched) versions.

Arch does the *opposite* of that

javum · 2015-03-20 07:58:47

fontconfig-infinality-ultimate-2.11.1-25 brakes some gtk2 apps (doublecmd, tuxcmd)
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44251

mihaicris · 2015-03-20 08:24:55

Confirmed, this is the bug repport for tuxcmd, with trace.log.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44264

bohoomil · 2015-03-20 08:30:34

@javum & @mihaicris Thanks for the info. I'll prepare a separate package with clean fontconfig-iu 2.11.1 for those who may need it.

bohoomil · 2015-03-20 08:57:49

OK, the package is in the repo: fontconfig-iu-comp, both x64_64 and i686. It only comes with regular configuration files updates and no sensitive libraries' modifications whatsoever. Simply install this guy and enjoy your apps back (I tested them and they're working fine).

Sorry for the mess: this is, well, a bleeding business sometimes... ;-)

mihaicris · 2015-03-20 09:15:41

Tested, it works, thanks.
Will we be able to switch back to "fontconfig-infinality-ultimate" in the future? No pressure, though.

bohoomil · 2015-03-20 23:49:18

mihaicris wrote:

Will we be able to switch back to "fontconfig-infinality-ultimate" in the future?

You are using `fontconfig-infinality-ultimate` right now, version 2.11.1, without the latest upstream commits, though. As for the name, I've been considering shortening it to just an `iu` suffix anyway.

I'll file a bug report with fontconfig devs as soon as I track down the faulty piece of code.

raggerv8 · 2015-03-24 10:35:41

A few days ago I did a system update and updated these packages

[2015-03-18 20:04] [ALPM] upgraded fontconfig-infinality-ultimate (2.11.1-24 -> 2.11.1-25)
[2015-03-19 09:25] [ALPM] upgraded fontconfig-infinality-ultimate (2.11.1-25 -> 2.11.1-26)

Now, fonts in Google Chrome Beta is very large sometimes. Example at Github:

I recall this happened once before, and it got fixed via a new update, but now it happened again.

Last edited by raggerv8 (2015-03-24 11:46:22)

dice · 2015-03-24 10:35:48

fontconfig-iu-comp also solves the probem with lilypond.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195031

bohoomil · 2015-03-25 03:27:27

@dice Thanks for the info. I'll simply continue updating both branches of 'fontconfig-iu': the only difference between them is going to be a collective patchset of upstream updates not included in the 'comp' package. Everything else--i.e. config files needed for proper rendering--will remain the same.

By the way, I also added a new font package to the repo: t1-urw-fonts-cyr-ib, which offers previous versions of URW and core35 fonts. For some reason I don't really understand (an upstream bug, I presume) the latest release is missing Cyrillic glyphs. Just install it instead of 't1-urw-fonts-ib' and you should be fine. (@dice, have you tried it already?).

Edit From the t1-urw-fonts-cyr-ib README:

README wrote:

If you are going to substitute proprietary fonts with Nimbus and URW families,
you need to create symbolic links in /etc/fonts/conf.d:
# cd /usr/share/doc/t1-urw-fonts-cyr-ib
# for conf in `ls *.conf`; do ln -s `pwd`/"$conf" /etc/fonts/conf.d/; done

Last edited by bohoomil (2015-03-25 04:07:22)

bohoomil · 2015-03-25 04:41:00

raggerv8 wrote:

fonts in Google Chrome Beta is very large sometimes.

First and foremost, I cannot support beta releases of software. If you find the new release of fontconfig-iu incompatible with applications you're using, please install the 'comp' version instead.

However, if there's no deep conflict between the new fontconfig and Chrome Beta (which seems very unlikely, IMO) the reason may be simply some sort of misconfiguration. By default, Helvetica and Helvetica Neue should be replaced--in the 'free' preset at least--with Liberation Sans and Open Sans respectively. Please check which preset you're actually using

$ fc-presets check

-- and if it's free, make sure the output of fc-match is as follows:

$ fc-match Helvetica
LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Sans" "Regular"
$ fc-match "Helvetica Neue"
OpenSans-Regular.ttf: "Open Sans" "Regular"

As far as I can tell, at least in one case the output will read Noto Sans...

Last edited by bohoomil (2015-03-25 05:02:02)

raggerv8 · 2015-03-25 06:16:24

bohoomil wrote:

raggerv8 wrote:
fonts in Google Chrome Beta is very large sometimes.
First and foremost, I cannot support beta releases of software. If you find the new release of fontconfig-iu incompatible with applications you're using, please install the 'comp' version instead.
However, if there's no deep conflict between the new fontconfig and Chrome Beta (which seems very unlikely, IMO) the reason may be simply some sort of misconfiguration. By default, Helvetica and Helvetica Neue should be replaced--in the 'free' preset at least--with Liberation Sans and Open Sans respectively. Please check which preset you're actually using
$ fc-presets check
-- and if it's free, make sure the output of fc-match is as follows:
$ fc-match Helvetica
LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Sans" "Regular"
$ fc-match "Helvetica Neue"
OpenSans-Regular.ttf: "Open Sans" "Regular"
As far as I can tell, at least in one case the output will read Noto Sans...

I am using the free preset, and the only thing that differs from your output is this

fc-match Helvetica
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans" "Regular"

bohoomil · 2015-03-25 07:16:05

@raggerv8 Would you mind checking out if the same happens with the stock Chromium from [extra]? Mine is OK, by the way.

raggerv8 · 2015-03-25 07:18:37

Regular Chromium seems to have the same issue, could it be my font settings? Although this happened when updating Infinality. Can you screenshot your settings?

bohoomil · 2015-03-25 07:31:47

As per

bohoomil wrote:

However, if there's no deep conflict between the new fontconfig and Chrome Beta (which seems very unlikely, IMO) the reason may be simply some sort of misconfiguration.

this seems most possible. He is the screenshot.

Edit Whoops, you were asking for settings. There's actually not much to see: just typical default values, except for aliases which are MS fonts instead of free, nothing special. Mind clearing your cache?

Last edited by bohoomil (2015-03-25 07:39:39)

raggerv8 · 2015-03-25 07:37:05

bohoomil wrote:

As per
bohoomil wrote:
However, if there's no deep conflict between the new fontconfig and Chrome Beta (which seems very unlikely, IMO) the reason may be simply some sort of misconfiguration.
this seems most possible. He is the screenshot.

Sorry, I meant a screenshot of your chrome font settings

bohoomil · 2015-03-25 07:41:11

Check out the edit note. ;-)

raggerv8 · 2015-03-25 08:12:13

bohoomil wrote:

Check out the edit note. ;-)

Ah, I see. I'm not home right now, but clearing the cache I doubt will make a difference since the same thing happens with Chromium which I just installed when you asked me to test it. Hmm... Is there some other font configs I can test?

ggg377 · 2015-03-25 21:24:57

I have an issue with FcBlanks errors: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1514207

Something similar is described in this thread, but it's not the exact same thing. Should I install fontconfig-iu-comp or leave it alone? Another poster reported that this happens on a clean install as well.

bohoomil · 2015-03-25 22:51:40

@ggg377 I cannot reproduce it. Did you replace the old fonts.conf with the new one? (BTW, I'll need to remove fonts.conf from the backup array...)

ggg377 · 2015-03-26 07:53:14

bohoomil wrote:

@ggg377 I cannot reproduce it. Did you replace the old fonts.conf with the new one? (BTW, I'll need to remove fonts.conf from the backup array...)

Replacing the old conf file did fix it.

dice · 2015-03-26 09:24:53

bohoomil wrote:

@dice Thanks for the info. I'll simply continue updating both branches of 'fontconfig-iu': the only difference between them is going to be a collective patchset of upstream updates not included in the 'comp' package. Everything else--i.e. config files needed for proper rendering--will remain the same.
By the way, I also added a new font package to the repo: t1-urw-fonts-cyr-ib, which offers previous versions of URW and core35 fonts. For some reason I don't really understand (an upstream bug, I presume) the latest release is missing Cyrillic glyphs. Just install it instead of 't1-urw-fonts-ib' and you should be fine. (@dice, have you tried it already?).

Going back to fontconfig-infinality-ultimate together with t1-urw-fonts-cyr-ib does not solve the problem. Although t1-urw-fonts-cyr-ib seems to be necessary as build dependency for lilypond (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lilypond-devel/) but I am using the lilypond build fromt he repos.
fontconfig-iu-comp works fine so the problem has to lie in the difference between the main version and the comp version.

KC9YDN · 2015-03-26 14:36:32

Hello, I'm having an issue with certain sites, one of them being reddit's front page, always having a horizontal scrollbar. After removing Reddit Enhancement Suite it no longer shows but RES is important!

The only font on the page is Verdana. Is this possibly a rendering issue with the font?

bohoomil · 2015-03-27 00:11:50

@KC9YDN I installed RES both in Firefox and Chromium and everything seems to look correctly (I'm using Verdana). Are you using Verdana, too, or DejaVu Sans with the 'free' preset? Both fonts look similar, but they aren't metrically compatible. Please, check it out:

$ fc-match Verdana

KC9YDN · 2015-03-27 10:24:53

Yes, you're right, I am using DejaVu Sans. I switched over to the ms preset and everything is just fine now. Thanks!

Last edited by KC9YDN (2015-03-27 10:33:16)

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