Bug 433559 - Inexact font match produces different results between i386,x86_64
Summary: Inexact font match produces different results between i386,x86_64
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fontconfig
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Behdad Esfahbod
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-20 00:20 UTC by John Ellson
Modified: 2009-07-14 15:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 15:02:01 UTC
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Description John Ellson 2008-02-20 00:20:40 UTC
Description of problem:
With dejavu and bitstream fonts installed, but freefont not installed, "fc-match
freesans" (also "fc-match sans") produces a different results on i386 than on
x86_64.

At first I thought this caused doxygen/graphviz to generate different results on
each platform which caused the file conflicts in multiarch installs. Bug
#432683.  It could have been, but in this case "sans" from dejavu and bitstream
produce identical images.  Its more likely that one of the build platfoms has
freefont installed, which does produce different images.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fontconfig-2.5.0-2.fc9


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum list 'dejavu*' 'bitstream*' 'freefont*'
2. fc-match freesans
3.
  
Actual results:

Installed Packages
bitstream-vera-fonts.noarch              1.10-8                 installed       
dejavu-fonts.noarch                      2.23-1.fc9             installed       
dejavu-fonts-experimental.noarch         2.23-1.fc9             installed       
dejavu-lgc-fonts.noarch                  2.23-1.fc9             installed       
Available Packages
freefont.noarch                          20060126-4.fc7         development 


Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"     <<-- x86_64

DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"        <<-- i386
    

Expected results:
Same font on both architectures, given same fonts installed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 05:17:37 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 23:35:46 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 15:02:01 UTC
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