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Two of the five paths in the macOS Devanagari list do not exist — `Supplemental/DevanagariSangamMN.ttc`, where Apple spells the family `Devanagari Sangam MN.ttc` with spaces as this file already does for its Telugu and Tamil siblings, and `Supplemental/Kohinoor.ttc`, one level above where Kohinoor.ttc actually lives — so the family documented as second choice has never been reachable. Both arrived together in storytold#1033 and are present from v0.7.1 through main; no CI could notice, since ci.yml has no macOS runner and read() logs only on a hit. List the families best-first, correctly spelled, and look each up in both macOS system font folders. Preference is unchanged: all of Devanagari MT's folders are tried before Sangam MN starts, Arial Unicode stays last, and at most one installed face per script is still loaded (§1.4). Devanagari MT wins on the machine tested, so Hindi renders identically here; the change is that a Mac without it lands on the intended fallback instead of skipping past it. That missing-Mac case is read off the code path, not observed — no screenshot or log claims otherwise. Tests: an exact assertion of the whole list (spellings, folders, order) that runs on every OS and also pins devanagari_candidates() to it; a loader test proving the first readable candidate wins, using two bundled faces of different byte length; a spaced-name resolution test against a temp macOS-shaped tree that panics rather than passing silently when the temp dir is unusable; and a macOS-only disk oracle requiring every family folder that exists here to be reachable, the list to cover Devanagari, Arial Unicode to load under MAX_BYTES, and devanagari_fallback() to land on the same bytes and face as this list. Families Apple stops shipping are reported, not failed — that absence is what the list exists for. Verified on macOS 26.6 (Apple M5 Max): fmt --all clean; clippy --all-targets -D warnings quiet; system_fonts 12 passed; whole crate 1340 passed / 0 failed; xtask layers (37 crates) and assets (272/6/22). Eight of ten deliberate breakages turn a test red; MAX_FACES depth and the PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0 guarantee do not, both disclosed rather than left implicit.
`a_script_fallback_is_the_first_candidate_with_the_probe` calls script_fallback, which returns nothing when PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0 — the switch cargo xtask screenshots sets (AGENTS.md §1.4) — so it failed in that mode on main, independently of the Devanagari fix. Skip both loader tests with a printed reason instead, matching crates/ui-egui/tests/fonts.rs. Split out from the previous commit so it can be dropped without touching the fix: PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0 cargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --lib system_fonts now reports 12 passed rather than one failure.
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- Around line 571-574: Update the assertion around the Arial Unicode fallback
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CodeRabbit caught that the macOS oracle asserted unconditionally that /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf resolves and loads under MAX_BYTES. On a Mac without that font the assertion fails while Devanagari coverage is perfectly fine — the loader treats candidates as optional, and so should this test. Hardened beyond an is_file() guard: is_file() follows symlinks, so a link whose target Apple has moved would read as "not installed" and skip — the very dead-path defect this branch exists to catch. Gate on symlink_metadata so a present-but-unresolved entry fails loudly, keep the resolution and MAX_BYTES assertions where the face exists, report otherwise. The path is taken from the list instead of repeated here, so it cannot drift from what ships. Also pin three load-bearing constants in the CI-visible list test, because each could otherwise be retuned silently (verified: all three were green before): MAX_BYTES 32 MiB — the cap that decides whether a 23 MB Unicode face is accepted, raised or lowered both now fail; DEVANAGARI_PROBE U+0915 — what makes a Hindi check a Hindi check, since Arial covers both scripts and was masking a probe swap; MAX_FACES 16 — the depth into .ttc collections the loader trusts. Verified on macOS 26.6 (Apple M5 Max): cargo fmt --all clean; clippy --all-targets -D warnings quiet; system_fonts 12 passed in normal mode and under PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0; whole crate 1340 passed / 0 failed. Mutations: cap lowered (2 tests red), cap raised to 512 MiB, probe swapped to Arabic alef and MAX_FACES cut to 1 all red via the pins. One limit stays open, stated rather than glossed: nothing verifies 16 faces is deep enough for real collections — that needs a synthetic .ttc with the covering glyph past index 16, and here every needed face sits at index 0.
Follow-up to review of this branch, no production change. The oracle now asserts the list still ends at Arial Unicode before checking it. Without that, deriving the path from list.first() instead of last() stayed green on this machine and printed "not installed" — the check disappeared because /System/Library/Fonts/DevanagariMT.ttc is absent here. Deriving the path from the list is still better than repeating a literal, but only if something verifies it points where the test thinks. The three retune tripwires (MAX_BYTES, DEVANAGARI_PROBE, MAX_FACES) move into their own test, so the layout test stays about Apple's directory layout and these are labelled for what they are: constants nothing else pins, each confirmed to be the only guard by deleting it and seeing the matching regression go green again. Comments corrected accordingly, including not claiming Apple moved a target when a user could equally have removed it. Verified on macOS 26.6 (Apple M5 Max): fmt --all clean; clippy -D warnings all-targets quiet; system_fonts 13 passed with and without PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0; whole crate 1341 passed / 0 failed / 5 ignored; xtask layers (37 crates) and assets (272/6/22). Mutations re-run at this commit: folder-major expansion, folder-order swap, typo restore, loader reversal, cap raised to 512 MiB, probe swapped to Arabic alef and MAX_FACES cut to 1 are all red; deleting the PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0 early return leaves all 1341 green, which is stated rather than hidden.
Round-6 review caught that this branch rejected is_file() for one path and kept using it forty lines above. The family loop filtered candidates with is_file(), which follows symlinks, so an entry that exists but no longer resolves was classified "not installed" and skipped — exactly the defect this branch fixes elsewhere. Now both blocks share one rule: presence via symlink_metadata, then a hard requirement that the entry resolves. Absence is still tolerated and reported; a broken entry fails loudly with the family named, because that is the failure we are trying to catch rather than a machine difference. Checked against this Mac first: no family or last-resort path is present-but-dangling here, so the stricter rule cannot produce a spurious red on current macOS. Also corrected two stale comments — the tripwire test is separate from the layout test *below* it, and the oracle's doc comment now states the exception the PR description already does: a Mac where nothing in the list covers Devanagari fails, since such a machine cannot validate anything. Verified solo on macOS 26.6 (Apple M5 Max), no concurrent writers this time: fmt --all clean; clippy -D warnings all-targets quiet; system_fonts 13 passed with and without PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0; whole crate 1341 passed / 0 failed / 5 ignored; xtask layers (37 crates) and assets (272/6/22). Mutation evidence for the change, via font folders redirected to /tmp so system paths were untouched: with a dangling DevanagariMT.ttc in the system folder the current code fails at "exists but does not resolve", while reverting to is_file() filtering makes the identical defect pass silently. Re-ran the pinned regressions too: cap raised to 512 MiB, MAX_FACES cut to 1, probe swapped to Arabic alef, last_resort derived from first(), misspelling restored — all red.
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Read the whole diff. The old list had DevanagariSangamMN.ttc without the spaces and Supplemental/Kohinoor.ttc in the wrong folder, so the second and third choices could never load. The family-major order across both folders is right, and Arial Unicode.ttf stays last. The tests pin the exact list without touching the filesystem, so they run on every OS, and they cover the spaced file name, the first-candidate-wins order and the PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0 skip. The macOS-only reachability test is a useful extra. CI is green at this head.
A pre-publish review caught both comment errors, and Apple's own documentation settles the rest of it: - installed_faces_switched_off said "both loader tests". It now guards three sites — two loader tests plus the macOS oracle — ever since 21dc64e added the third call without touching this sentence. - MACOS_FONT_DIRS claimed the Telugu, Sinhala and Tamil lists "still name one folder each". They do not: Telugu names /System/Library/Fonts, Supplemental/ and /Library/Fonts (four paths), Tamil three, Sinhala two. The accurate statement is that no family in those lists is looked up in both system folders, which is the property Devanagari now has and they do not. Their first choices all exist on macOS 26.6, verified again here. - The oracle's doc comment now records the authority for treating listed faces as optional: Apple's "Fonts included with macOS Tahoe" page (support.apple.com/122869) is titled "Installed or downloadable fonts" and states that most install automatically while others download via Font Book — without marking which entries are which. Absence of a face is therefore expected on some Macs, which is exactly what the reported-not-failed behaviour accommodates. Comment-only change: fmt --all clean, clippy -D warnings quiet, system_fonts 13 passed with and without PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0.
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Re-reviewed 4d2e401, including the current one-file font-candidate changes. The family search order is preserved, and the macOS oracle now treats Arial as optional while still rejecting present-but-broken paths and enforcing the size cap. Verified exact-head Linux and Windows checks, plus wasm and licensing: https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft/actions/runs/39407431201. The macOS-only disk oracle was not independently executed; fuzz was skipped. Approving this documented two-folder fallback change.
What this changes
Fixes #3597
system_fonts.rskeeps hand-written lists of installed font files to borrow when no embedded facecovers a script (
AGENTS.md§1.4 — read at runtime, never embedded or shipped). Two of the fivemacOS Devanagari paths point at files that do not exist, one of them being Apple's real font name
misspelled:
mainSupplemental/DevanagariMT.ttcSupplemental/DevanagariSangamMN.ttcDevanagari Sangam MN.ttc, with spaces — the spelling this same file already uses for its Telugu and Tamil siblingsSupplemental/Kohinoor.ttc/System/Library/Fonts/Kohinoor.ttc, which the list also names/Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttfSupplemental/, resolving to 23,278,008 B ✅So the second choice this list promises has not been reachable on any macOS I could check — wrong
spelling today and already wrong at v0.7.1 — which means when Devanagari MT is absent,
Hindi skips past
Devanagari Sangam MN(present here, 1,029,884 B, covers the module'sDevanagari probe) instead of using it. Both dead paths arrived together in #1033 (merged
2026-10-12), whose diff introduces them verbatim, and the misspelling is present in v0.7.1, v0.8.0
and v0.9.0 as well as
main— checked by reading the file at each tag, so this has been shippingsince v0.7.1.
The fix lists the families best-first and looks each one up in both macOS system font folders, so a
move between those folders can no longer drop a family silently. Preference is unchanged — all of
Devanagari MT's folders are tried before Sangam MN starts — and
Arial Unicode.ttfstays last.Why it is still worth merging: the list begins to deliver what it documents, and survives an Apple
folder move.
What this does not claim. On the machine tested, Hindi renders identically before and after
(Devanagari MT wins first either way), because there is no Hindi interface language yet —
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/holds 22 catalogs and none ishi.tsv; #1976 proposes adding one. TodayDevanagari reaches these faces as file names, tab titles, bookmarks and Properties text, which is
the module's stated purpose; if #1976 lands, the same list becomes the Hindi interface's font path.
I have not seen a Mac without Devanagari MT — that case is read off the code path, not witnessed.
This also loads no additional font on a machine where one already resolves: still at most one
installed face per script, exactly as §1.4 allows; only which file would be used changes when the
earlier ones are absent.
Two limits on the fix's reach, stated up front: it covers moves between these two folders only,
not into
/Library/Fontsor Apple's asset catalogs; and on macOS 26.6 each family happens to live inexactly one of the two, so folder order is a deterministic choice rather than an observed tie-break.
Correcting fallback paths in this file has been accepted before — #798/#925 after #728 (Chinese),
#1611 (Telugu), #1706 (Sinhala and Tamil). Longer term, #2796 proposes replacing these
hand-written lists with coverage-driven discovery, which would subsume this; treat it as an
incremental fix in the meantime, not an argument against that proposal.
Coordination — none of these touches the Devanagari paths, but all edit this file: #3517 converts
the
OnceLockcaches toLazyLockand adds a Hangul list; #1976 addshangul_candidates()plusHindi, Vietnamese and Indonesian catalogs and edits the same test loop. I will rebase against
whichever merges first, the same day. #1893 (PingFang on macOS 26) is left entirely alone here.
How you verified it
macOS 26.6 (build 25G72), Apple M5 Max, arm64. Only the
aarch64-apple-darwintarget is installedhere and there is no rustup, so Linux/Windows/wasm32 compilation is CI's first word, not mine.
cargo fmt --check— run as CI runs it:cargo fmt --all -- --check-D warningson the crate I changed (pdfcraft-ui-egui --all-targets)system_fonts; whole crate 1341 passed, 0 failed)cargo xtask layersandcargo xtask assetsTests. Five added (the module goes from 8 to 13), at two scales. Four run on every OS — three of them read no filesystem beyond a temp tree
of their own making, and the fourth reads this repo’s bundled
Interfixture; the fifth is#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]and can only run on realhardware — CI has no macOS runner, as
ci.ymlreserves the org's Mac slots for release builds.the_macos_devanagari_list_is_apples_layout— the exact list: spellings, both folders perfamily, and order. It reads no filesystem, so it runs on ubuntu, windows and macOS alike; the same
test also pins that
devanagari_candidates()returns this list on macOS, so callers cannot driftfrom what is asserted.
the_first_readable_candidate_wins_not_the_last— list order is the preference. Two bundledfaces both cover
Abut differ in byte length, so a loader scanning back-to-front is caught.a_family_whose_name_has_spaces_is_still_found— builds a macOS-shaped tree under the temp dirwith a real face at
Supplemental/Devanagari Sangam MN.ttcand resolves it; an unusable temp dirpanics rather than passing silently (
TMPDIR=/nonexistent-root-xyzagainst the linked binary exits101 —
TMPDIR=… cargo testdies in the linker first, so reproduce after--no-run).every_installed_devanagari_face_is_reachable_on_this_mac(macOS only) — the disk oracle: everyfamily folder present here is reachable from the list; something in the list covers Devanagari;
devanagari_fallback()lands on the same bytes and face as this list, so a swapped or truncatedlist cannot hide behind Arial; the block that checks the Unicode last resort first asserts the list
still ends at it, so deriving that path from
first()cannot quietly go and check something else;and every family entry present on disk must also resolve — the same dead-path rule, applied to the
families and not only to the last resort; and the
Arial Unicodelast resort is checked when it is present —gated on
symlink_metadatarather thanis_file()so a link whose target was moved or removed stillfails here (that dead-path class is the whole point of this change), then required to resolve and
load under
MAX_BYTES. A family or last resort Apple does not ship on a given Mac is reportedwith
eprintln!, not failed — that absence is the very case the list exists to survive, and it isdocumented rather than assumed: Apple’s "Fonts included with macOS Tahoe" page
(support.apple.com/122869) is titled "Installed or downloadable fonts" and states that most of these
faces install automatically while others download on demand through Font Book, without marking which
entries are which — so presence cannot be assumed for any name on these lists. One deliberate
exception: a Mac where nothing in the list covers Devanagari does fail loudly, because that machine
cannot validate the list at all.
the_load_constants_are_the_documented_contractis a separate, small test that pins three values thismodule's contract depends on:
MAX_BYTES(32 MiB — the cap that decides whether a ~23 MB Unicodeface is accepted),
DEVANAGARI_PROBE(U+0915, which is what makes a Hindi check a Hindi check)and
MAX_FACES(how deep into a.ttccollection the loader looks). They live in their own test sothe layout test stays about Apple's directory layout.
I expect the objection that asserting a constant equals its own literal cannot fail except when someone
edits it, and would rather answer it now than be asked: each pin is the only thing catching a
regression that cannot be tested behaviourally on CI hardware, because there is no committed Devanagari
or Arabic fixture and no synthetic
.ttc. I checked that claim rather than assumed it — delete a pinand the matching mutation goes green again (see the table). They are retune tripwires, not behaviour
tests; if you would rather not have them,
MAX_BYTESis the one to drop first (it is already stated inthe doc comment and exercised downward by the macOS oracle), but
MAX_FACESandDEVANAGARI_PROBEwould then be caught by nothing.
Seen failing before the fix, since a test nobody has seen fail is not evidence: fifteen deliberate
breakages, fourteen of which turn a test red at this commit — every one re-run against the tree being pushed. One does not, and is named as a gap below. The two dead-symlink rows
each contain a deliberately-green sub-case — the same defect with its guard removed — which argue
for keeping those guards; they are marked in place so nobody misreads them as coverage.
DevanagariSangamMN.ttcfind_map→rev().find_mapin the loaderMAX_BYTES32 MiB → 16 MiB, below Arial's real sizeMAX_BYTES32 MiB → 512 MiB (cap silently raised)DEVANAGARI_PROBEU+0915→ ArabicU+0627MAX_FACES16 → 1 (retuned cap)devanagari_fallback()fed the Telugu listdevanagari_fallback()truncated to its first candidatelast_resortderived fromlist.first()instead oflast()/tmp(system folders untouched)is_file()the same defect is green and silent, which is why the gate usessymlink_metadata/tmp, the same experiment one block upis_file()filtering makes it pass silentlyscript_fallback'sPDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0early returnunsafe(forbidden here). Checked by hand instead: launching the binary with the variable setCounting note: the five macOS paths of the first table show up as four rows because
Kohinoor.ttcis listed in bothfolders and only one of the two exists on this OS.
Two notes on evidence quality. An early attempt to measure glyph coverage with a hand-written
cmapparser produced invalid format numbers, so every figure from it was discarded; what remains comes
from skrifa — the parser egui itself uses — through this module's own
face_with(). And I make noclaim about which of Devanagari MT, Sangam MN and Kohinoor is the better typeface.
Never-crash
unwrap/expect/panic!/unreachable!/todo!outside tests. Production code is oneflat_map, onepushand two one-line helpers; the only.expects are in test code, where rootclippy.tomlpermits them — and they exist so that an unusable temp dir fails loudly rather than letting a
test pass having done nothing.
sized by input (fixed constants: three family names × two folders), nothing recursive, no locks.
unsafe.read()returnsNonefor unreadable or over-cap files and logs only on a hit, which is why a wrong pathfails silently — that silence plus the absent macOS runner is how these paths have rotted
unnoticed since v0.7.1.
Provenance
Han stay out of these lists as §1.1 requires (already tested by
han_candidates_skip_adobe_designs)— worth stating, because adding a Noto face would not be an acceptable fix for this gap
assets/;ATTRIBUTION.tomluntouched;cargo xtask assetspasses. The new test's temp fixture is this repo's ownassets/fonts/Inter-Regular.ttf, already committed and attributed. Apple's faces are read atruntime only, per §1.4 — never embedded, copied, shipped or written into a PDF
otfinfo, Poppler, MuPDF or Ghostscript on this machine and none used)*_candidates()functions specifybest-first locations) plus black-box observation of Apple's directory layout on current macOS.
For completeness: after establishing the defect I read sibling app WordCraft's
crates/fonts/src/ui_fallback.rsto check house convention for folder lists; no code,constant or comment here derives from it (their approach also walks Apple's asset catalogs,
which this change deliberately does not)
ATTRIBUTION.tomlentry is needed; the gate passes either waySecurity
--rootconfinement untouched: folders and family names are compile-time constants, no pathhere comes from a document, argument, preference or nested dispatch — nothing user-controlled
reaches
Path::joinCargo.lockunchangedParity and reach
parity/acrobat-features.tomlnot updated — deliberately, and flagged for correction if I amwrong: no Acrobat feature ships or changes here. The font entries I found (
view.render-cid-fonts,Type 3) describe rendering PDF content; this is the application choosing an interface face for
glyphs its embedded fonts lack. There is no
evidenceline to strengthen because nothing inparity/claims this behaviour todayautomationtool added: this introduces no command, option oruser-facing feature. The code path is identical whether driven by the GUI or a test, and
PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTSkeeps working exactly as documented indocs/development.md:135docs/localization.md:54(borrow one installed face at runtime — still true, still one per script) and
docs/localization-parity.md:35(Hindi row: "Devanagari not tested … no Devanagari face incraft-fonts" — still true, this fixes paths rather than bundled coverage). That Hindi row is now
slightly incomplete in one respect — there are Devanagari list tests after this PR — so I have
left it for you to call: say the word and I will update that row in this PR or a follow-up
Likewise, CLAUDE.md asks for a
ROADMAP.mdprogress-log line at the end of milestone work;M14: add Korean localization and desktop Hangul fallback #2094 and comparable one-file fixes appear to ship without it, so I have not touched
ROADMAP.mdunilaterally — happy to add the line if you expect it from external PRs.Anything a reviewer should look at first
The claim is narrow on purpose, and there is a structural reason you should expect that.
Nothing visible changes on the hardware I could test; what changes is that the list delivers what
it documents, and survives an Apple folder move. If you would rather have a visible symptom
before merging, the honest answer is that I could not produce one on macOS 26.6.
The upside worth weighing:
the_macos_devanagari_list_is_apples_layoutreads no filesystem, sothe spellings, folders and order are pinned on ubuntu and windows as well — a repeat of Edit text: support Devanagari system font fallback and Indic pre-base matra reordering #1033
now fails CI instead of shipping. Only the behavioural half (does a real face resolve on Apple's
layout) needs Mac hardware, the same split as Telugu interface: draw with an installed Telugu face when the build has none (part of #1531) #1611 and Sinhala and Tamil interface: draw with an installed font (part of #1688) #1706.
Two holes I could not close. The first cannot become a test without a fixture: nothing verifies that 16 faces is
deep enough for real collections — the pin only stops the constant being retuned. On this Mac the
face the loader settles on is index 0 of its collection, so nothing here ever exercises scanning past
the first face. Closing that properly needs a synthetic
.ttcwith the needed glyphpast index 16, which I have not built. Related and worth someone's attention: Apple's reserved
PingFangUI.ttchas 32 faces, deeper than this cap — that is Use PingFang from the reserved font directory on macOS 26 (#1716) #1893's territory rather thanthis PR's, but it suggests the depth deserves a look from whoever can test Chinese. The second hole is
the green row above:
PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0is a pre-existing repo-wide gap — deleting that early return leaves all1341 tests green, and pinning it requires process-wide environment mutation, i.e.
unsafe, whichthis workspace forbids.
One small drive-by:
a_script_fallback_is_the_first_candidate_with_the_probewas already redunder
PDFCRAFT_SYSTEM_FONTS=0, the switchcargo xtask screenshotssets, because it callsscript_fallback. Exactly one pre-existing test was red in that mode — the loader tests I addedwere written guarded. That one now skips with a printed reason, matching
crates/ui-egui/tests/fonts.rs. That guard is its own commit,M14: skip the loader tests when installed faces are switched off, so you can drop itwithout touching the fix.
Credit where due: the conditional Arial check came from @coderabbitai's review on this PR — including its
reasoning, which I first set aside because the reference would not load for me and then checked: Apple’s
page really does say "Most of these fonts are installed and enabled automatically. Others in this list can
be downloaded using Font Book." Their finding was right on both counts. Two follow-up passes on our side
then hardened the remedy past
is_file()and made the family loop obey the same rule; both defects weremine, and the second is exactly the drift this file keeps catching.
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