** Description changed: With a number of more 'exotic' (often commercial) fonts that do not follow the Regular/Italic/Bold/Bold Italic structure, Gnome applications (and by extension, most probably Pango) in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Beta 1 is unable to properly present and use available fonts. More specifically it collapses styles together. For example, supposing a font contains styles "Light", "Regular", "Semibold", "Bold" and "Black" each having roman and oblique (italic) variants. Gnome (pango) displays all of the possible choices, but selecting a number of them would result in the same font style. e.g. selecting 'regular' and 'light' would both use the 'light' style. - This is probably a regression from earlier versions, as Dapper did not - exhibit this behaviour (whereas Breezy did). This is also well- + This is probably a regression from earlier versions, as Edgy and Dapper + did not exhibit this behaviour (Breezy did). This is also well- documented in the Gnome Bugzilla repository (apologies, bugzilla.gnome.org is offline at the time of filing this bug) and also mentioned in the freedesktop bugzilla repository. However, this does not seem like a fontconfig issue, but a pango issue. KDE 3.5.6 included in 'Feisty Beta 1' properly presents AND uses all installed font and does not exhibit this behaviour. While it might be possible, in some cases, to overcome this problem by using a custom .fonts.conf with <match> this should not be required for the fonts to work properly in a typical installation. Typical fonts that exhibit this issue are included in families provided by BT (Bitstream) and Adobe.
-- Font selection issues (style collapsing) in Gnome 2.18 (pango) https://launchpad.net/bugs/96513 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
