On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:58:04 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 17:42:26 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> > I wonder whether it is. His has "Copyright URW Software, Copyright >> > 1997 by URW" in the file. >> >> What file? You mean the .ttf font? :-? > > Of course. > >> When I open "symbol.ttf" from MC I see "The Monotype Corporation >> plc/Time Solutions Inc. 1990-1992. All Rights ReservedSymbolRegular... >> blah, blah" > > You have a different file from Paul then. Yes, that's what I said. We've got a problem with the same font (symbol.ttf) but the file comes from a different "manufacturer", so to speak. >> > This font is menace on a Debian system. As both of you have found out >> > it needs to be put somewhere where fontconfig does not look. >> > Examining it with fontforge reveals the unicode values for the glyphs >> > are incorrect. Not that the GPL version of the same font in wine has >> > anything to boast about - it too suffers from an identical defect. >> >> Well, as I already explained, the same TrueType font works well in >> Wheezy so to my eyes is not the font that is a menace but a bug located >> elsewhere in both Squeeze and Lenny :-) > > Where can we download this file to test? I'm using the Symbol TrueType font that came by default along with Windows XP¹, I can send you the file if you want to play with it. ¹http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/js408n$io1$2...@dough.gmane.org
