Re: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> It seems the changes in font.scm were harmful to MacOS X. On  
> processing, I get:
>
> warning: don't know how to embed "Verdana"="/Library/Fonts/Verdana"
>
> and in the resulting PDF file, the chord names look weird (I believe  
> it's Verdana substituted with Courier).
>
> This seems to be related with pango default font lookup, which I  don't 
> understand very well, and with the fact that native fonts don't  seem to 
> be handled well by the open source tool chain.
>
> Any suggestions how I could fix this? Should I just add a patch for  
> MacOS to revert to Luxi for the sans serif font?

Yes,  I guess that's best. I'd be grateful if you could find out how we 
can properly embed a dfont file. I know that there are utilities for 
extracting TTFs from dfonts.

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