On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:04 AM, S Page <skierpage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The current behavior isn't "do the right thing" for a naive user. If I > install a font that is obviously much closer to other font families > than the O.S. default, it's strange that fontconfig doesn't pick it > unless I write some configuration info. I think it's a known and long standing issue : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13416 it needs to be fixed/improved in the future. > Is fontconfig even intended to know about font families that aren't > installed so it can pick the closest matching font given a name? It doesn't do more than comparing the names for family name so far, unless having any particular rules for alternatives, as you experienced. > That's been the PANOSE/OS2 sFamilyClass dream for decades; it seems > from a few web documents using the abandoned CSS panose-1 property > that Lucida and Lucida Sans share the same "2 11 6 2 3 5 4 2 2 4" > panose-1 digits. We have a RFE for that too I think... -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
