* Pascal de Bruijn wrote, On 02/04/08 18:31: > I also have these fonts. > > This is not a fontconfig issue. The fonts authors (Bitstream) botched > the font family naming. > > Fontconfig correctly groups fonts based on their family name. Bitstream > decided not to give all these fonts a common family name. > > This is why they are not grouped properly. > > There is a legitimate reason for this though. Not all applications can > properly deal with large font families (more than Regular, Italic, Bold, > BoldItalic). I've seen OpenOffice.org/Inkscape break on large families, > where different weights of fonts would get confused. > > The font family setting can be checked using a tool like fontforge. >
I agree with your statements, but as mentioned the KDE font tools don't have nearly so much a problem with it, so there may still be something that can be done here. Sam -- Wrong font names https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24764 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
