Can't load font using local()

Running from the default terminal on Windows 10, if I, after installing a custom font like Google’s Noto Sans JP, use this CSS in my HTML: @font-face{ font-family: "Noto Sans JP"; src: local("Noto Sans JP") } WeasyPrint will throw a “WARNING: Font-face “Noto Sans JP” cannot be loaded.”, and if there are a large number of CJK characters, produce a PDF with mojibake like these:

If I reduce the amount of CJK characters enough, the PDF will be rendered okay, but with the default system font (Meiryo).

But if I put url() instead of local() and update my CSS to: @font-face{ font-family: "Noto Sans JP"; src: url("NotoSansJP-Regular.otf") } Then the HTML is rendered as it should be, with the custom font.

[liZe]

On CentOS, I think that the fix has been packported into the cairo-1.17.4-3 package. Updating to this latest version will fix the problem.

On Windows, you can use a previous version of GTK+. Version 2020-11-22 includes Cairo 1.17.2 that doesn’t have this bug.

[liZe]

Thanks, your suggestion works perfectly! As noted in fonts.conf tho people shouldn’t edit that file since updates will override it

Of course, that was just a workaround to test.

so I put <dir>~/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts</dir> in etc\fonts\conf.d\51-local.conf instead and it works immediately.

👍🏽

I’m not familiar with the GTK installer so I’ll have to leave the issue creation to you, is that okay?

Hmmm… After some time spent on GitHub, I now think that it’s a bug in Fontconfig. And actually, it’s already reported: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues/144. I’ve added a comment.

And if there are any other info you need I’ll try to answer it, else you can close this bug.

Done!