bug#642: marked as done (23.0.60; garbled text (wrong font?) in About GNU Emacs screen)

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regarding 23.0.60; garbled text (wrong font?) in About GNU Emacs screen
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: 23.0.60; garbled text (wrong font?) in About GNU Emacs screen Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 13:23:25 -0700

emacs -Q --debug-init -l ".../path/to/hexrgb.el" -l ".../path/to/oneonone.el" -f
"1on1-emacs"
 
See attached files hexrgb.el and oneonone.el, and screenshot.
This is a regression wrt a build of 2008-07-26, where there was no such problem.
 
In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-08-01 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
 
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
 

hexrgb.el
Description: Binary data

oneonone.el
Description: Binary data

bug-garbled-about-emacs.png
Description: PNG image

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> Drew Adams wrote:
> > Here is some more info about this.
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> > The display shows problems with font families Times and Helvetica. I use the
> > standard Times and Helvetica Type1 fonts on Windows XP. E.g., the Times Roman
> > font file is named TIR_____.PFM; the Helvetica file is HV_____.PFM.
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> Thanks for your extra information.  I think this is related to the fact 
> that the Uniscribe font backend can only use opentype and truetype 
> fonts, but Windows by default defines font substitutions for Helvetica 
> and Times to map to the Truetype fonts "Arial" and "Times New Roman". So 
> the uniscribe backend picks these substitutes up, but somehow things get 
> confused so the Type-1 fonts end up being loaded. I've added some code 
> to specifically reject these substitutes, which are detected by 
> comparing the font's "full name" with the name used to load it. 
> Unfortunately this also catches many legitimate fonts, so I've had to 
> pick out these two specific problematic substitutions. If there are any 
> other specific fonts that cause this problem, then we will need to add 
> rules for them too.
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