Le mardi 10 avril 2007 à 17:34 +0100, Thomas Worthington a écrit : > On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:56:16 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot > <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Le samedi 07 avril 2007 à 00:58 +0100, Thomas Worthington a écrit : > > > >> How do I install a font such as Frutiger so that styles like "black", > >> "ultra black", and "Extra Black Condensed" actually do something? > >> Another > >> example would be installing Eurostile such that "Extended #2", "Extended > >> #2 Bold" etc. work. > > > > A lot of this breakage is not at fontconfig but app level. Many apps > > only recognize the four legacy variants (normal, italic, bold, bold > > italic). Or if they are intended to recognize more, have a bug somewhere > > where a coder assumed these four. > > Well, do you have an example of an app which works so that I can test > this? Inkscape, Gimp, and Opera, all show the problem. Scribus does not, > but I'm under the impression that it does its own font search at startup > without recourse to fontconfig. ask on #dejavu, the folks there are pretty knowledgeable about the apps that fail to digest their fonts > > It would really be more productive if you pinged the authors of broken > > apps instead of faking things at the fontconfig level. > > Tried that. > > > Or you'll be > > burned in a few years when the binary font cache is replaced by > > something else. > > That is why I would rather the system worked instead of haveing to hack > around it. The system can only made working at the app level. That's where the bugs are. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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