Le mardi 04 mars 2008 à 12:39 -0500, Bob Tennent a écrit : > >|> It's one of the urw base35 clones that ghostscript depends on. Do > >|> > >|> locate n019043l.pfb > >|> > >|> on any Linux system. Or > >|> > >|> xlsfonts | grep 'nimbus sans l-medium-r-condensed'. > >| > >|In other words, font in a legacy format > > type 1 is now a "legacy format"? Been superceded by OTF Apple-side. Go to any web font market, new fonts are not released as type1 nowadays (except as an afterthought). And the switch has been even more complete for Linux FLOSS fonts. > >| with limited encoding coverage > > n019063l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans l-medium-i-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard … > n019063l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans l-medium-i-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 This was good 5-6 years ago, not really impressive now (also just because you have many separate files does not mean the code blocks are actually completely filled. > >| not exposed to modern apps in many distributions. > > This is precisely the problem. If Firefox can't even *see* the condensed > font, web designers can't assume it's available. And web designers > *really* want to be able to use a condensed sans serif font. It's infortunate we have aliases for fantasy fonts no one really cares about but no default alias for condensed fonts. > No matter > what you say against it, that font is the most widely available > candidate. Not really anymore. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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