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What |Old value |New value
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Status|STARTED |RESOLVED
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Resolution| |WONTFIX
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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 15 03:44:24 -0700
2005 -------
Interesting.
The regular Helvetica fonts listed by the WindowsEnumFontFamiliesEx() API are:
pitchandfamily=0x0B, name="Helvetica", style="Regular"
pitchandfamily=0x27, name="Helvetica", style="Regular"
with the charsets 0, 238, 162, 186 for both of them. The one with the
pitchandfamily=0x0B is the real Type1 font, the other one is Arial in disguise
and has the TrueType flag. Windows itself seems to report Arial twice: Once as
Arial, then as Helvetica.
We prefer the TrueType version for font subsetting, to get a good knowlege of
the glyph coverage etc. . When we request exactly this version, Windows selects
Arial! And if the PitchAndFamily member in the font request is set do "don't
care" one gets the real Helvetica! I guess all simple applications don't bother
to set the PitchAndFamily member... OOo cannot do this if e.g. the "glyph
fallback" feature is supposed to work good. Also there a lot of issues with
device fonts/bitmap fonts, etc. would surface if we set PitchAndFaily to
DontCare...
The only good fix I can see is to convince Windows not to advertise Arial as
Helvetica...
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