
Strong demand from artists led to creation of more complex fonts and fontįormats. (for example, use Aral Black for an heavy font, use Arial Narrow for a condensedĢ. Font users browsed the raw font name listĪnd selected the right font file directly.

Manipulating formatted text just had to expose a raw font family list to users,Īnd make minimal effort to regroup the most frequent variants/faces (regular,īold, bold italic, italic) together. Same font, and all those files exposed different font family names. Typically had different font files and names per encoding and variant of the
RIGHTFONT DUPLICATES SOFTWARE
When software was young fonts were sparse and their format limitative. I'm going to try to reword and summarise the problem in this comment.ġ. Rare ligatures and extra glyphs are missing):Īdobe Garamond:style=Italic Oldstyle FiguresĪdobe Garamond:style=Semibold Italic Oldstyle FiguresĪdobe Garamond:style=Semibold Small Caps & Oldstyle FiguresĪdobe Garamond:style=Small Caps & Oldstyle Figures My Adobe Garamond, and mine is not even complete (the expert fonts with
RIGHTFONT DUPLICATES PATCH
The more I think about it, the more I wonder what this patch will do to 09:06:16 I think you refer to the wrong issue! I added some comments where the relevant names are read from TT file, for posterity.īefore starting OOo with the patch applied, the font cache file /user/psprint/pspfontcache must be deleted (or check for Localized, since they are taken from the font file. This little change has a side effect, though: the name of the font style are not (where the TT font file is scanned for names). Please check if the stringĬonversion is all right, especially the returned value for Apple in sfc.cxx To obtain the correct style name a small correction to the TrueType name tableĭiscovery procedure was needed (fontmanager.cxx). I checked with the proprietary fonts I have and all of them are now visible on
RIGHTFONT DUPLICATES WINDOWS
Windows platforms, just to see if the font naming was consistent between the two. I'll attach a Calc test file I used to check for DejaVu fonts in both Linux and What happens when fontconfig is not used is to be checked. The patch is m233 based, but I applied it without problem to 2.3.0. The patch I'm going to attach is addressing this issue in Linux platforms that The font designer (see the previously attached screenshot). With the four available standard styles usable and use the grouping provided by My proposal, at least for the time being, is that we stick with the current UI Oldest TrueType fonts still around today (among them some proprietary I bought Grouping), OOo UI is not ready for that at the moment, so aren't some of the Preferred family grouping) and Preferred Subfamily (for preferred family The application a possibility to group the fonts by Preferred Family (for I spent some time to dig into the way of font listing made by fontconfig, Iĭiscovered IMHO that though fontconfig uses the TrueType font file data to give Independent selection of Posture/Weight/Stretch in Format->Character dialogįedora 14 currently ships some pre OO3.3, there I can select Dajavu Narrow.Ĭomment 13 Giuseppe Castagno (aka beppec56)

Unfortunately, DejaVu font contains but one alternative stretch (semi-condensed), so there is not much to see. Testing file containing all possible values of font stretch. Import/export of font stretch to/from ODF.įix of VCL to really use font stretch for font selection. This patch propogates the widthtypes into the attributes used to compare fonts to eachotherĪpplication/)Īpplication/)īasic support for font stretch in sfx and above.
