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Disable bitmap fonts for Firefox (pdf.js) in Fontconfig #337

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  1. etc/fonts/conf.d: Disable bitmap fonts for Firefox (pdf.js)

    [pdf.js commit 53134c0c0bb2 ([api-minor] Use a local font or fallback on
    an embedded one (if it exists) for non-embedded fonts (bug 1766039))][1]
    [breaks][3] [font selection in PDF documents][3], when the font is not
    embedded and bitmap fonts, like X.Org fonts, are available. Work around
    it by disabling bitmap fonts for Mozilla Firefox.
    
    Suggested-by: Calixte Denizet <cdenizet@mozilla.com>
    Resolves: mariux64/bee-files#2933
    
    Copy commit message from [proposed (and rejected) bee-files commit][4]:
    
    > This works around a Mozilla Firefox regression from 114.0 to 115.0.
    > Firefox was upgraded from 114.0 to 115.0 around July 5th, 2023, and
    > until now we had two problem reports. It’s actually a [regression][1]
    > [in][2] [pdf.js][3], used to display PDF files inside the browser.
    > Evince or other PDF viewers do not have the problem.
    >
    > The problem is, that for PDF documents using Helvetica, but not
    > embedding the font, pdf.js chooses the X.Org font, despite Fontconfig
    > matching *Helvetica* to *Nimbus Sans L*:
    >
    >     $ fc-match Helvetica
    >     n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
    >
    > As downgrading Firefox from 115.0.2 to 114.0 is unsupported by Mozilla
    > for profiles – a warning is shown, and you need to start it with
    > `--allow-downgrade` – remove the likely unused Helvetica fonts confusing
    > Firefox/pdf.js.
    
    [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/commit/53134c0c0bb2d19244dd8c31aa4e8e6d01a657e4
    [2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845551
    [3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839860
    [4]: mariux64/bee-files#2935
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  1. etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps-firefox.conf: Replace description el…

    …ement by comment
    
    Fontconfig 2.12.4 does not know the element `description`, so convert to
    a comment to avoid the warning below:
    
        /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps-firefox.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
    
    The supported elements are listed in `/usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd`.
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