Last modified: 2014-05-14 12:32:28 UTC
Created attachment 10797 [details] list, on WMF cluster, of ttf files and their sizes We have several fonts in /home/wikipedia/common/fonts . That path is used as a GDFONTPATH env variable in operations/mediawiki-config.git:wmf-config/CommonSettings.php I believe most of those fonts are already shipped as Ubuntu packages via puppet. The relevant classes would be misc::pdf::fonts and imagescaler::packages::fonts.
Note form the README file found out in that path: I copied all these out of /usr/share/truetype/* from an Ubuntu app server. This dir was used as the GDFONTPATH, possibly for ploticus for timelines, but didn't exist. WTF? ... plus FreeSans.ttf which is what EasyTimeline hardcodes. :P We can presumably dump it if we kill ploticus running from app servers. -- brion 2008-12-09
The fonts are used for GD which seems to require all fonts to be in the same path. Does not seem to be a need to puppetize nor update that.