font settings in .fonts.conf ignored

[mbana]

Binary package hint: fontconfig

The following doesn't work unless I use;

    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>

What I thought should work;

    <match target="font">
        <test compare="eq" name="family">
            <string>Consolas</string>
        </test>
        <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
            <const>hintslight</const>
        </edit>
    </match>

What actually works;

    <match target="font">
        <test compare="eq" name="family">
            <string>Consolas</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
        <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
    </match

I've been told that this is a bug. See http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=186789&page=7 for more information and my old .fonts.conf; http://pastebin.com/m1b3fbe51 .

[Paul Bredbury (brebs)]

You haven't explained what all your other fontconfig rules (in /etc/fonts/ and ~/.fonts.conf) set rgba, autohint, antialias and hinting to. So this bug report doesn't make much sense ;)

[mbana (m.bana)]

Paul: My entire .fonts.conf; http://pastebin.com/md7787ec. I've also attached it.

The issue is the following should work;

    <match target="font">
        <test compare="eq" name="family">
            <string>Consolas</string>
        </test>
        <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
            <const>hintslight</const>
        </edit>
    </match>

and I shouldn't have to also specify

    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>

[Paul Bredbury (brebs)]

Pastebin messes up your file - line 9 is missing!

Here's a ~/.fonts.conf to use as a proper test.

Exactly which font file are you using? Make it easy for people to reproduce your problem. State a URL to the font, and/or its version number (shown by gnome-font-viewer) and exact filesize.

Next, recompile cairo with cairo-respect-fontconfig.patch, reboot and see if it fixes the problem ;)

URL for the patch:

ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/9/cairo-respect-fontconfig.patch

Info:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11838
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13335
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/209256
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1094309#post1094309

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Paul Bredbury (brebs)]

It's a known bug, which upstream seem to enjoy ignoring:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11838

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Reassigning to cairo per comment #6