On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:07:38 +0200 Pierre wrote: > You’ll need to tag fonts yourself for this kind of characteristic. Or, and > it’s quite an idea even if I wouldn’t bet on it, someone has to maintain a > public database where all applications could grab infos about fonts. About tagging: I should do it, little by little. For the public database I think an ontologic db seems quite interesting. There're too many font sites and most of them keep things unclear.
> What you describe here lets me think it’s a font problem. Here are some > informations displayed by Fontmatrix which will be useful to determine if the > font is deeply broken or if it can be fixed. > How many glyphs? > What Type? > Which encodings? > Vendor? > "Base latin" and more generally "* latin *" coverages? > And finally, if you have Fontforge installed, run it with the font that gives > problems by selecting "Edit->Edit the selected font" menu entry and once here > you have "Elements->Validate..." plus a full range of possible checks. > By the way, it can be a good idea to tell us what are these fonts because > somebody could already have issues with it. Ok, but it seems like I have some problems with fontforge: $ fontforge /usr/share/fonts/TTF/averoigne.TTF Copyright (c) 2000-2008 by George Williams. Executable based on sources from 16:34 GMT 30-Mar-2008. Library based on sources from 15:57 GMT 30-Mar-2008. Error attempting to load font: -monotype-almanac mt-medium-r-normal--14-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 The X Server clained the font existed, but when I asked for it, I got this error instead: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 45.0 (X_OpenFont) Serial number of failed request: 727 Failed resource ID: 36000b4 Aborted don't you know what is causing this? apart from this I've noticed that most of the fonts that don't display correctly have glyphs listed only under "Un-mapped Glyphs". These are not only signs fonts, but also character fonts. Another strange issue I have is with Arial: this font renders correctly on Fontmatrix but in Openoffice is rendered as "Planet X" font. I don't know what is causing this. > I think it’s a Fontmatrix bug and it would be nice if you could take time to > open a bugreport. I saw it once when scrolling up. > The preview list is a Fontmatrix own widget on top of a Qt graphic surface. > Then it somehow weaker than regular Qt list widgets, so when you see it > begins to be screwed up in any way it means that the segmentation fault is > not far away! Thus it’s time to sync with the database (File->Save) and > hit "View All" or do something that refresh the list. infact it happened that this behaviour leaded to a segfault. I'll open a bugreport asap. PS: is it possible to add a popup when you place the cursor over i.e. the font path if it's half hidden? So I don't have to expand it to see where is that font. -- Matteo 'Peach' Pescarin Jabber ID = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site = http://www.smartart.it GeCHI = http://www.gechi.it _______________________________________________ Undertype-users mailing list Undertype-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/undertype-users
