https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739#c1 --- Comment #1 from John McManaman 2011-03-18 07:37:16 UTC --- I should add that the problem also involves the freefont opentype files in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont. In this case though, I need to remove the files, as freefont doesn't include the opentype version. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739#c3 John McManaman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|auxsvr@yahoo.com | --- Comment #3 from John McManaman 2011-03-18 09:47:38 UTC --- This works indeed, thanks. However, I need to exclude a specific subdirectory and I'm not familiar with the syntax of /etc/fonts/conf.avail/09-texlive.conf. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739#c5 John McManaman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | --- Comment #5 from John McManaman 2011-10-22 13:08:00 UTC --- Just tested texlive-xetex-2010-12.9.noarch from factory, and I have the same problem again. Commenting out the line <dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir> in /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf fixes it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739#c7 John McManaman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED InfoProvider|auxsvr@yahoo.com | --- Comment #7 from John McManaman 2011-10-24 13:10:00 UTC --- Just tested this again with texlive-2010-12.9 from factory (oS 12.1 RC). If I add <dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/truetype</dir> in /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf, then no PDF file is produced, therefore the original bug report is valid. If <dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir> is not commented out, then the resulting PDF file has wrong glyphs in some cases, as viewed in okular, evince or acroread. If <dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir> is commented out, then everything is fine. This matches comment 1. I also searched for duplicate freefont otf files and none was found. I'll check TeXLive 2011 later. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739#c9 --- Comment #9 from John McManaman 2011-10-24 16:20:30 UTC --- What about marking texlive-xetex as conflicting with package freefont and every other font package, if the font in the package is also in texlive-xetex? Other fonts that should conflict like freefont are cm-unicode, LinuxLibertine and stix, although I haven't tested this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739#c11 --- Comment #11 from John McManaman 2011-10-25 15:54:38 UTC --- Here are some observations with package freefont removed: 1. Having both lines <dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/truetype</dir> <dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir> in /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf makes the resulting PDF file have wrong or corrupted glyphs in some cases. 2. Fontmatrix lists two entries for each shape of the freefont family, one for the truetype font and another for the opentype one. 3. Removing either one (not both) of the aforementioned lines makes the resulting PDF file look fine, while freefont remains available for other uses; for example using freefont in oowriter works fine. Therefore, the following are safe to conclude: texlive becomes confused, because multiple copies of freefont are available. In order to make only one available, we need to set only one of /usr/share/texmf{true,open}type available and set texlive in conflict with freefont. This is in accordance with the original report and the link provided. One thing that confuses me is that the documentation of texlive suggests the presence of both the opentype and the freetype lines, although I never managed to make this work. Feel free to ask for more information, minimal examples etc. I may be busy for a couple of days, though. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680739#c13 --- Comment #13 from John McManaman 2011-10-28 09:50:48 UTC --- A cleaner workaround for the case of conflicting OTF-TTF versions of gnu-freefont is to define the font by its filename, which implies that one should also define the bold and italic shapes explicitly. I suppose one could use the full path to the font to work around the problem with the freefont package as well, but it would make the .tex file system-dependent. In my humble opinion, the solution in this case is to mark the package xetex as conflicting with package freefont. Making available both OTF and TTF copies of the same font via fontconfig has the disadvantage of potentially causing problems with other applications too. However, this is the choice of the texlive maintainer, and I see no way to avoid the problem unless this changes. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/30393/focus=30406 for more details. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.