[tex-live] possible bug or mistake ...

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Sat Aug 5 10:10:11 CEST 2017


> The other one is - TL installation and  maintenance should not interfere with the way Evince displays a PDF. It works fine before and then it breaks after the installation. As Norbert said it is probably doing something really wrong with those two fonts.


It is not the TL installation, but the fact that you did make available all fonts to fontconfig. This is an optional step and of course influences *every* program that uses fontconfig.

They ask for a font name like "Helvetica" and fontconfig returns whatever thinks for best to it. By adding a bunch of fonts, several providing the name Helvetica or something similar, there will be a change.

Nothing TL can influence or change.

Norbert



On August 5, 2017 6:19:55 AM GMT+09:00, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com> wrote:
>Zdenek,
>
>Thanks for putting laying bare what is going on.
>
>There are two issues here, one that is not TL's problem which is
>PST-barcode producing files with Helvetica and Courier when the user
>has
>not requested - it should use just plain standard TeX fonts, most
>probably
>LM fonts, and use Helvetica and Courier only if the user so requests.
>I'll
>take the issue up with Herbert.
>
>The other one is - TL installation and maintenance should not interfere
>with the way Evince displays a PDF. It works fine before and then it
>breaks
>after the installation. As Norbert said it is probably doing something
>really wrong with those two fonts.
>
>Paulo Ney
>
>
>
>On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 2017-08-04 22:37 GMT+02:00 Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Zdenek,
>>>
>>> I did expect that embedding was the problem I was seeing, but I am
>after
>>> the source of the problem -- because:
>>>
>>> 1- XeLaTeX embeds fonts by default, so if in this simple case it is
>not
>>> embedding, something is wrong, possibly with PST-barcode, possibly
>XeTeX.
>>>
>>
>> XeLaTeX embeds fonts if it is requested in the config file of
>xdvipdfmx
>> which is the default (for good reasons). PST-barcode creates an EPS
>file
>> and dvipdfmx inserts it to the output PDF. The fonts are embedded
>only if
>> they are embedded in the EPS file which is not the case.
>>
>>>
>>> 2- I have tons of files that do NOT have embedded Courier and
>Helvetica
>>> (created by other tools) on my machine. The installation of TL
>should not
>>> mess up with my ability to view them.
>>>
>>
>> The algorithms for representing unembedded fonts are quite complex
>and are
>> defined in the config files of the viewers. A subtle change in te
>font name
>> or font id may play a significant role. In addition, you never know
>what
>> are the exact substitution rule in a particular viewer. TL does not
>> interact with the PDF viewers.  Of course, you can manually install
>TL
>> fonts so that a particular PDF viewer will find them but you never
>know
>> what happens if you give the file without embedded fonts to someone
>else. I
>> have seen a lot of different problems, some of them really weird. And
>a few
>> years ago it cost me quite a lot of money because the phototypesetter
>> intepreted them in a really different way than my printer. Thus
>> verification of at least partial compatibility with PDF/X or PDF/A is
>a
>> must.
>>
>>>
>>> Paulo Ney
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Zdeněk Wagner
>> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Zdenek Wagner
><zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Paulo,
>>>>
>>>> pdffonts says in our case emb=no which means that the font is not
>>>> present in the PDF. The rendering engines is then (almost) free to
>do
>>>> whatever it wants. Usually the engines have their built-in fonts.
>If a font
>>>> with the same name is found, it is usually used but it need not be
>the
>>>> intended font. If it is not found, the rendering engine often has
>>>> replacement rules and selects a font. If there is no matching
>replacement
>>>> rule, either a default font is used or nothing is displayed at all.
>Thius
>>>> is why documents without embedded fonts look differently in
>different
>>>> viewers. Usually ghostscript has reasonalbe replacements so you can
>often
>>>> fix the problem by post-processing the PDF file by ps2pdf (yes, it
>is able
>>>> to build another PDF from a PDF).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zdeněk Wagner
>>>> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
>>>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>>>
>>>> 2017-08-04 5:29 GMT+02:00 Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I imagine people are doing this for the sake of XeTeX, and not
>really
>>>>> to use TeX fonts in LibreOffice...so it should be on TL's lap the
>>>>> responsibility to get these fonts to XeTeX without damaging
>anything else
>>>>> on the machine - specially a PDF viewer, like Evince.
>>>>>
>>>>> It definitely should come out of the manual -- because under the
>tow of
>>>>> that section, tons of people are recommending that all over SX and
>other
>>>>> places. Better yet, the section should probably say
>>>>>
>>>>>      ** DO NOT DO THIS ** It was recommended in the past, but we
>know
>>>>> better now that ....
>>>>>
>>>>> In the TeX world we are acquainted with a lot of blind-recipes
>like
>>>>> updmap, mktexlsr, texhash, ... some of them people have no idea
>what is
>>>>> going on, so if it is  a recipe out there - it should be a good
>one!
>>>>>
>>>>> I still do not know who is at fault here... Is it the PDF file?
>>>>> PST-barcode? fc-cache? The machine? Evince?
>>>>>
>>>>> Paulo Ney
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Norbert Preining
><preining at logic.at>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, a bit more relaxed answer ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > cp $(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texliv
>>>>>> e-fontconfig.conf
>>>>>> > /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
>>>>>> > fc-cache -fsv
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know that this is in the manual, but I *STRONGLY* advice
>against it.
>>>>>> There are some broken fonts, some that mess up fontconfig due to
>naming
>>>>>> issues, all kind of bad things can happen. In Debian I have been
>pushed
>>>>>> to do this for long time, but always rejected and recommend
>people
>>>>>> adding only those fonts one by one that they are actually use.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just my 2Yen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Norbert
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> PREINING Norbert
>>>>>> http://www.preining.info
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>Developer
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>

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