[Bug 477397] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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--- Comment #5 from Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>  2008-12-21 14:12:34 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> That seems the typical font licensing mess. I don't even want to look at it,
> that's something for spot if you want to keep those files.

I am not sure. In my opinion it could also be that Adam should contact
upstream...

> Do you really need the files in Type1 form? 

As far as I can tell (after a bit of code reading), yes. It even looks like it
can only embed .pfa and not .pfb. Those fonts are embedded in pdf or ps
produced. I haven't completly understood how the name is constructed from the
html, but the names of the font files that can be embedded are hardcoded in an
array, corresponding with

Courier-Bold.pfa
Courier-BoldOblique.pfa
Courier-Oblique.pfa
Courier.pfa
Dingbats.pfa
Helvetica-Bold.pfa
Helvetica-BoldOblique.pfa
Helvetica-Oblique.pfa
Helvetica.pfa
Monospace-Bold.pfa
Monospace-BoldOblique.pfa
Monospace-Oblique.pfa
Monospace.pfa
Sans-Bold.pfa
Sans-BoldOblique.pfa
Sans-Oblique.pfa
Sans.pfa
Serif-Bold.pfa
Serif-BoldOblique.pfa
Serif-Oblique.pfa
Serif-Roman.pfa
Symbol.pfa
Times-Bold.pfa
Times-BoldItalic.pfa
Times-Italic.pfa
Times-Roman.pfa

(all the fonts shipped in htmldoc).

> I suppose it may be possible to
> convert DejaVu to Type1 at build time, though since the Type1 format is very
> limited, that will be a huge mess with quality loss and conflicts with the main
> dejavu truetype fonts.

In any case htmldoc doesn't use fontconfig therefore just packaging them
without a possibility to be used by fontconfig could be possible. I don't know
if you want to do that, though.

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