Bug#939748: Newest version breaks rendering of bitmap fonts in GTK applications.
On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 11:20:28 + "Gong S." wrote: > The newest version in the experimental repo, 1.44.6-1, breaks the > displaying of XLFD bitmap fonts in GTK applications. > Pango 1.44.7-3 has been uploaded to unstable so I expect this will break even more setups. > If you set the UI font to a bitmap font (Fixed) in /etc/gtk2/gtkrc, > all characters are replaced by empty glyphs. > A simpler use case is people using bitmap fonts in gnome-terminal, I for example was using xfonts-terminus. For the discussion on the upstream issue tracker refer to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 One possible solution discussed there is to use OpenType versions of the bitmap font, these are still supported. Fedora has some info about converting bitmap fonts to OpenType: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BitmapFontConversion For Terminus I was able to convert it locally and make it work with Pango: https://superuser.com/a/1539389 So the issue could be fixed at the font level, wrt. Terminus I will try to have an otf variant uploaded to Debian. I hope this info is useful for other people missing bitmap fonts. Ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite https://ao2.it https://twitter.com/ao2it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Bug#939748: Newest version breaks rendering of bitmap fonts in GTK applications.
On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 11:20:28AM +, Gong S. wrote: > The newest version in the experimental repo, 1.44.6-1, breaks the > displaying of XLFD bitmap fonts in GTK applications. My understanding is that dropping bitmap font support was intentional. See: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/05/25/pango-future-directions/ and https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/08/07/pango-1-44-wrap-up/
Bug#939748: Newest version breaks rendering of bitmap fonts in GTK applications.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Package: pango1.0 Version: 1.44.6-1 Severity: important The newest version in the experimental repo, 1.44.6-1, breaks the displaying of XLFD bitmap fonts in GTK applications. If you set the UI font to a bitmap font (Fixed) in /etc/gtk2/gtkrc, all characters are replaced by empty glyphs. I do not have GTK3 installed (since I dislike the direction GTK is taking), but it should affect GTK3 as well. Downgrading the packages "libpangoft2-1.0-0", "libpangocairo-1.0-0" and "libpango-1.0-0" from 1.44.6-1 to 1.42.6-7 fixes the problem. See attached screenshots for the issue. PS: Before you say "nobody is using bitmap fonts", you should consider that not everybody has a high-definition screen or want to see blurry text. - Please limit your reply to 7-bit ASCII. I refuse to see your idiotic emoji in a TTY. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail wsBcBAEBCAAGBQJddOP1AAoJENi1YDlFXXQfzh4H/Ax28fn3LDpSxDCoNGaq vbl+Fq7UPt+gszhXlC8z6j6YO2tFnC5aHS7iZ+Maw7KkXg7QbcQEUFqll1dI 91fd28sLusNQufCbW4vKdQckpBRivetl4QNkOGm9J4Fftm6vN/HcEKWNxBHp YcQ33xY21Pl7OrS+bZaWLYSZgqn9ITdb9iq9WwfiK2K1laN1txNIPgXibu9i bpOe6MgysTCbVj4aBO2/rIZMY+VJOAbyyP0XwPkqiMqTk56jLx/nawtUd1hB rB33HBSFOPlfZMfmedLaBKEshrTchDGQ8f6dodnC9QheNaLh1Ac/If+iylZT z4gTwPrx9uB8x39ltw7CJ3Y= =SO62 -END PGP SIGNATURE- before-update.png.sig Description: PGP signature after-update.png.sig Description: PGP signature publickey - pthfdr@protonmail.ch - 0xAB77ABA4.asc Description: application/pgp-keys publickey - pthfdr@protonmail.ch - 0xAB77ABA4.asc.sig Description: PGP signature
