https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87288
Bug ID: 87288
Summary: FORMATTING: FONT SELECTION. Condensed font variations
not selectable (Small Caps also)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.3.4.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Mac OS X (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
The DejaVu font family distributed wit LibreOffice contains Condensed fonts.
Even though they are displayed in the font selection dialogue as distinct font
variations, selecting them has no effect. Instead the corresponding
non-condensed fonts appear to be used in the preview and the document.
Reopening the dialogue also shows the corresponding non-condensed font
variation being chosen.
DejaVu Serif contains these fonts:
Book
Condensed - (reverts to Book)
Fett - (localized Bold)
Condensed Bold - (reverts to Bold)
Condensed Italic - (reverts to Italic)
Kursiv - (localized Italic)
Fett Kursiv - (localized Bold Italic)
Condensed Bold Italic - (reverts to Bold Italic)
Selecting one of the condensed variations shows no effect. Only the 4 standard
veriations are efectivly selectable.
DejaVu Sans contains these fonts:
ExtraLight - (works as expected)
Book
Condensed
Fett - (localized Bold)
Condensed Bold
Condensed Oblique
Oblique - (reverts to Condensed Oblique)
Bold Oblique
Condensed Bold Oblique
Here Oblique reverts to Condensed Oblique, but the actually selected font
appears to be Oblique (non-condensed). I guess this has to do something with
the order, in which the font variations appear in the list.
Liberation and PT use different font family names.
Also the 10 variations of Source Code Pro work as expected. They only differ in
weight and slope, not width.
The OS X fonts Futura, Helvetica Neue and Papyrus contain condensed variations,
which all revert to the corresponding non-condensed font variations. However
Futura Condensed ExtraBold and Helvetica Neue Condensed Black work - there are
no corresponding font variations with the same weight.
The free font Fontin Sans contains a Small Caps font variation, also Bold,
Italic and Bold Italic. Small Caps is not shown in the font selection dialogue,
but used in preview and document, when the font (regular variation) is
selected. The other variations work as expected.
-- TL;DR
Font variations only work as expected, when they differ in weight or slope.
Variations in width and shape fail in one or more ways.
Font designers (and users) are not expecting this, and they shouldn't have to.
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