Bug 18552 - [Gtk] Downloadable fonts don't work with pango backend
Summary: [Gtk] Downloadable fonts don't work with pango backend
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKitGTK (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL:
Keywords: Gtk
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Blocks: 20783
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Reported: 2008-04-17 12:46 PDT by Luca Ferretti
Modified: 2012-12-11 01:43 PST (History)
5 users (show)

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Downloadable fonts with Pango backend (84.75 KB, image/png)
2008-04-17 12:49 PDT, Luca Ferretti 		no flags Details
Downloadable fonts with Freetype backend (82.08 KB, image/png)
2008-04-17 12:52 PDT, Luca Ferretti 		no flags Details
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Description Luca Ferretti 2008-04-17 12:46:06 PDT 
As per summary, the downloadable fonts feature described here[1] don't works with pango backend in my WebKit build (using jhbuild).

This seems a pango only bug: in fact trying midori browser installed by distro (using svn release 29752), the same feauture works fine. See attached screenshots.

[1] http://www.alistapart.com/d/cssatten/nels.html
Comment 1 Luca Ferretti 2008-04-17 12:49:15 PDT 
Created attachment 20633 [details]
Downloadable fonts with Pango backend

The screenshots shows Epiphany running on recent (5~6 hours ago) WebKit checkout. I don't know if donwloadable fonts was downloaded, but of course wasn't used :-(
Comment 2 Luca Ferretti 2008-04-17 12:52:53 PDT 
Created attachment 20634 [details]
Downloadable fonts with Freetype backend

To quickly check if this was a Pango only bug, I tried the same page with midori browser shipped with Ubuntu 8.04. WebKit installed by package libwebkitgtk1d_0~svn29752-1_i386.deb
Comment 3 Alp Toker 2008-04-23 05:58:02 PDT 
Luca,

Pango upstream is missing support to load fonts from memory -- I believe the bug was reported to b.g.o years ago but I don't have a reference to hand. The Pango backend can't become the default until this is fixed.
Comment 4 Luca Ferretti 2008-04-23 12:32:17 PDT 
Updated WebKit module on jhbuild to not force pango backend.

Alp, we could open a new pango bug...
Comment 5 Benjamin Otte 2008-05-02 05:00:22 PDT 
This is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347237
Comment 6 Martin Robinson 2012-12-11 01:43:31 PST 
There is no longer a Pango backend after http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/137263.