[Gnome-print] gnome-font-install and aliases

["Dmitry G. Mastrukov" <dmitry taurussoft org>]

Hi, All!

Recently I've spent some time trying properly setup aliases for 
standart adobe fonts (gnome-print-0.29). Unfortunately, for example 
Gnumeric does not start without Helvetica. But gnome-print installs 
alias for Helvetica without Cyrillic (standart adobe .afm has no 
Cyrillic).
I discovered gnome-font-install (in gfi_process_type1_alias and 
gfi_try_srcfont) uses info from .afm file to fill internal font 
structure, but not xml-properties (name, fullname, family, weight) 
from .font file. Seems such xml-properties are absolutely needless. 
IMHO it's strange behaviour. So if I want to have font with name "a" 
from font with name "b" I need to have correct .afm file for "a". IMHO 
it's annoying model of aliasing (and broken since standart .afm files 
from package has weak internationalization).
I suggest to fill name, fullname, familyname, etc. parts of internal 
structure from corresponding xml-properties of .font file. It's close 
to X model of aliasing (X does not make any check of 
filemame/weight/etc when aliasing). And then use .afm for other parts 
of structure. With such model of aliasing it will be possible to use 
native .afm for "metrics" property and may be forget about version 
compare of .afm and .pfb files.

Regards,
Dmitry