On 2008/03/04 12:11 (GMT-0500) Bob Tennent apparently typed: >Felix Miata wrote: > >|What systems did you test on that makes you think this font is > >|installed "on every Linux system"? > 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'. > But applications like Firefox don't see it. I did more checking. FF can see it, assuming correct system configuration to serve it up via fontconfig. https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=198668 is from Mandriva Cooker, which matches back at least as far as v2007.0. It doesn't work in any other distros I checked, but Mandriva apparently has proven it possible. KDE seems to think it's a TT font, but I suppose that's a bug, since the only such font I can locate in the fonts trees in /usr is n019043l.pfb. For systems over which you have no control, and for current and near future, I suggest using arial narrow as a CSS fallback for cases where more M$ fonts are installed than just the basic web fonts. For the long term, maybe filing some bugs against the various distros, like https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367188 on SUSE, could improve things. Another possible approach: a campaign to get the DejaVu project to add a narrow or extra condensed sans to its suite would improve the Linux font selection down the road sometime. Right now it has a condensed sans, but that only shrinks its Verdana work-alike down to the size of lower case Arial. -- "Let us not love with words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
