[Bug 477397] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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--- Comment #15 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-01-12 09:15:09 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)

> Ultimately, htmldoc should use fontconfig, but I think that is long term since
> (correct me if I'm wrong) htmldoc would have to learn to directly read more
> font formats for this to be useful.

I think you can specify the font formats you can handle in your fontconfig
queries so this part should not be a blocker (ping behdad if you want more
info)

That takes care of the symlinking stuff but still requires availability of
fonts in one of the formats the app understands.

> Currently it only reads afm/pfa files and
> it hardcodes the FontName, so that it doesn't really need to parse or process
> the font files themselves, only embed.

Also we have lots of OTF fonts in the distro and OTF is the Type1 successor
(should be all CFF data inside), so it may be easier for upstream so add
support for OTF instead of TTF.

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