Font matching broken (?)

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#1

Hi all,

I observe a strange font matching behaviour on my Leap 15 machine:

$ fc-match Dingbats
d050000l.pfb: "Dingbats" "Regular"
$ fc-match ZapfDingbats
Roboto-Regular.ttf: "Roboto" "Regular"

I have PDFs created by R which include symbols from the Dingbats font with the font name “ZapfDingbats” for which I would expect to get also the Dingbats font. Due to the wrong font, the symbol is missing. While I do not like PDFs with non-embedded fonts, the standard fonts Helvetica, Zapf Dingbats etc should work in any reader.

On another Leap 42.3 machine, the behaviour is correct:

$ fc-match Dingbats
d050000l.pfb: "Dingbats" "Regular"
$ fc-match ZapfDingbats
d050000l.pfb: "Dingbats" "Regular"

Any idea where this is coming from?

Cheers

#2

add this lines to /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf

<alias binding=“same”>
<family>ZapfDingbats</family>
<accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept>
</alias>

#3

Roboto-Regular.ttf: “Roboto” “Regular” - maybe default font.
ZapfDingbats - maybe not installed font.

Try to install ZapfDingbats font.
Or make an alias as previously suggested.