I have just tested the OOo_3.0.0_080314 version. Generally it is of
course coming along quite well, good work. However, the way the Aqua
builds I've tried so far handles fonts is totally un-mac-like, in that
it only recognizes the default Roman weight/style, and if present, bold
and italic or bold/italic combination. One of the strengths for which
the Mac is renowned (and why as long as 15 years ago, newspapers and
magazines scrapped their typesetting machines to employ networked Macs)
was because of its sophistication in handling typography; it is an
assumed standard on the Mac.
With OOo Aqua, it appears that none of the power of the Mac's
typographic sophistication is utilized. Many commercial typeface
families have other than bold and italic weights, some families having
up to 20 or more variations, e.g. Adobe's Garamond. Since none of the
weights/styles are neither "bold" or "italic" only the roman weights
show up for use in OOo. In the font menu, only "Adobe Garamond" is
displayed; in reality there are 20 other variants/weights/styles in that
font family that are thereby inaccessible. That is just one of many,
many examples.
Do you have any plans on incorporating better font accessibility to fix
this so OOo Aqua can recognize all these font variants before the
release version? Please let me know, I think it is a significant issue.
Thanks,
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Joe D. Wheeler
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