Bug 956453

Summary:	Incorrect font aliases for TimesNewRomanPS and TimesNRMT
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst>
Component:	fontconfig	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
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Description Elliott Sales de Andrade 2013-04-25 02:35:10 UTC

Description of problem:
As an example, please see this PDF:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~ygu/publications/christian_gji.pdf

It uses several serif fonts that are not embedded:
TimesNewRomanPS
TimesNewRomanPS-Italic
TimesNewRomanPS-Bold
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalic
TimesNRMT-SemiBold

When I view it in Firefox's pdf.js, the title and headings are serif, but when I view it in evince, the title and headings are sans-serif. I know pdf.js is not a perfect renderer, but at least it picks the right font.

I filed this report under fontconfig because it is returning the wrong font:

$ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

$ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS-Italic
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

$ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS-Bold
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

$ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalic
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

$ fc-match TimesNRMT-SemiBold
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

Using similar fonts nets the correct result:

$ fc-match TimesNewRoman
LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Serif" "Regular"

$ fc-match Times
n021003l.pfb: "Nimbus Roman No9 L" "Regular"

I am not sure of the difference here, but at least the results are serif.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fontconfig-2.10.2-2.fc18.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download above PDF.
2. Open in Firefox's pdf.js
3. Open in evince

Actual results:
Differing fonts for title and headings.

Expected results:
Same fonts for title and headings.

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2013-04-25 10:53:45 UTC

Where is that font coming from? why the later case works is we have an alias to recognize that Times New Roman is a serif. you need to have similar things for your fonts.

Comment 2 Elliott Sales de Andrade 2013-04-25 20:39:14 UTC

The font comes from the referenced PDF. While I linked to the author's site, the same thing occurs with the PDF from the journal, so apparently the journal is using those fonts at some point. I have no control over this.

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Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2014-01-14 09:23:11 UTC

liberation* and other packages metric-compatible with times new roman probably need to alias those names too in their fontconfig rules