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

[James Lowe]

Hosada-san,

On 13/09/15 14:48, Masamichi HOSODA wrote:
>> 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.
> 

Did you use the downloadable binary or from git directly?

Also it does say in the instructions that the Century Schoolbook OTF
files needed to be available (and suggests that a user puts them in
~/.fonts) did you do this?

James