Re: fontconfig fuzzy matching

On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 20:08, [email protected] wrote:
> [...] Also, it might be useful to consider
> matching sub-strings (so Garamond would match AGaramond, or ITC Garamond,
> for example), but that is really more a fonts.conf issue.

Watch that FF Symbol is not a possible substitute for Symbol --
one is a text font (sans serif) and the other a symbol/math font.

So the foundry label should not usually be disregarded, except
possibly as a last resort.  Unfortuantely, looking at the font
encoding tends not to be reliable with Type 1 fonts.

Doesn't Acrobat come with a font substittion database? I forget.
Nor do I know whether Adobe would have any interest in opening
their font substitution technology.

Liam