Re: SVG output problems - TexGyre vs Century Schoolbook - not embedding fonts

[Masamichi HOSODA]

> Hello,
> 
> Doing a simple
> 
> lilypond -dbackend=svg test.ly
> 
> My SVG output appears to not be embedding the fonts.
> 
> From the Application Usage Guide it states:
> 
> "... This creates a single SVG file, without embedded fonts, for every
> page of output. It is recommended to install the Century Schoolbook
> fonts, included with your LilyPond installation, for optimal rendering.
> Under UNIX, simply copy these fonts from the LilyPond directory
> (typically ‘/usr/share/lilypond/VERSION/fonts/otf/’) to ‘~/.fonts/’.
> There is also an option svg-woff (below) for use of woff font files in
> the SVG backend."
> 
> 1. This needs changing since we have moved away from Century Schoolbook
> to these TexGyre fonts right?
> 
> 2. So assuming that #1 is correct, if I use fc-list to see where all my
> 'Gyre' fonts are I get this:
> 
> --snip--
> 
> address@hidden otf]$ fc-list | grep chool
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059016l.pfb: Century Schoolbook L:style=Bold
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059033l.pfb: Century Schoolbook
> L:style=Italic
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059013l.pfb: Century Schoolbook
> L:style=Roman
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c059036l.pfb: Century Schoolbook
> L:style=Bold Italic
> 
> 
> address@hidden otf]$ fc-list | grep gyre
> 
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrepagella-italic.otf: TeX Gyre Pagella:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreschola-regular.otf: TeX Gyre Schola:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrepagella-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Pagella:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreschola-italic.otf: TeX Gyre Schola:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheros-regular.otf: TeX Gyre Heros:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrecursor-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Cursor:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrepagella-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Pagella:style=Bold Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyretermes-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Termes:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreadventor-italic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Adventor:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrecursor-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Cursor:style=Bold Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrebonum-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Bonum:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheros-italic.otf: TeX Gyre Heros:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrecursor-italic.otf: TeX Gyre Cursor:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrebonum-italic.otf: TeX Gyre Bonum:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheros-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Heros:style=Bold Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheroscn-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Heros Cn:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrecursor-regular.otf: TeX Gyre Cursor:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyretermes-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Termes:style=Bold Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreadventor-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Adventor:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheroscn-italic.otf: TeX Gyre Heros Cn:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreschola-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Schola:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrepagella-regular.otf: TeX Gyre
> Pagella:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrebonum-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Bonum:style=Bold Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreschola-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Schola:style=Bold Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrebonum-regular.otf: TeX Gyre Bonum:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheroscn-regular.otf: TeX Gyre Heros
> Cn:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheros-bold.otf: TeX Gyre Heros:style=Bold
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreheroscn-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre Heros
> Cn:style=Bold Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyretermes-italic.otf: TeX Gyre Termes:style=Italic
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreadventor-regular.otf: TeX Gyre
> Adventor:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyretermes-regular.otf: TeX Gyre Termes:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyrechorus-mediumitalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Chorus:style=Regular
> /home/james/.fonts/texgyreadventor-bolditalic.otf: TeX Gyre
> Adventor:style=Bold Italic
> 
> --snip--
> 
> So it looks like I have it all correctly set up - note that I am not
> using an 'installed' version but building directly from git and running
> lilypond from the build directory with an appropriate $PATH setting..
> 
> Does this mean we need to 'fix' the back-end option for SVG or have I
> missed something?

In my experiment, by LilyPond 2.19.22 (before changing fonts to TeX Gyre),
SVG output is not embeded text fonts.
So I think that SVG backend does not embed any text fonts
independently of font changing to TeX Gyre.