Bug 952121

Summary:	net-print/hplip Missing helvetica-bold font: required for hp-sendfax coverpage's script to work without trial and error & ledmfax.py cleanup
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	gentoo-bugzilla
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Daniel Pielmeier <billie>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo-bugzilla, printing
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	hplip hp-sendfax logfile

Description gentoo-bugzilla 2025-03-27 02:50:10 UTC

Created attachment 922985 [details]
hplip hp-sendfax logfile

Gentoo seems to be missing helvetica-bold which seems to be hp's default for the 'basic' coverpage. in hplip/faxes/coverpages.py one can change what font is being used... as well as it seems support for truetypes has been commented out, but left functional. 

As a test of whether its worth pursing supporting hp-fax on gentoo, I installed the truetype helvetica-bold.tff, uncommented & transformed the uming font calls already in the coverpages.py file; and got this `https://faxbeep.com/faxtest/fax_678e4438/ (edit me once confirmed)` but I don't know what the pushed patch' should replace the font with realistically, in regards to FOSS and the community's ideals


If patches are being added to keep faxing working, I think it would be nice to iron out this small issue below, by adding 'r' infront of the 'b' turning it into a raw that can accept the escaped sequence. I haven't investigated why this is getting called, only that changing it to raw resolves the syntax warning.

```
/usr/share/hplip/fax/ledmfax.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\d'
  http_result_pat = re.compile(b"""HTTP/\d.\d\s(\d+)""", re.I)
                              ^r
````

Comment 1 gentoo-bugzilla 2025-03-27 02:54:01 UTC

UNPATCHED WORKAROUND: Don't use `basic` coverpage when faxing. any other type confidential, urgent, etc... is fine to use.