On 05/25/2010 06:27 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: > In a message dated 2010.05.25 03:03 -0500, fred juan diaz wrote: ... >> >> May be we should speak about the three Liberation fonts, >> created to have the same metric properties than the classical win fonts ? >> never got any problem on different O.S. when using those fonts > > Maybe we should - but that begs a number questions: > > (1) Although a major contribution, Liberation Serif/Sans/Mono of course > only cover the most basic font requirements, and even then do not > provide a match to satisfy everyone. For example, the slab-serif > Courier New is probably the most common monospace font for Windows; > Liberation Mono is a good match in character metrics but not in > appearance. [OTOH, Liberation Mono is a very good match for the most > common monospace fonts in Mac OS/OSX.] > > (2) How does OO do the font matching? A "replacement table" can be set > up to substitute fonts by name, but that just seems to be an override > for whatever algorithm OO would otherwise use. What is that algorithm? > Where does it reside? How does it work? > > Studying VCL.vxu, it seems that fonts are matched, not on typeface > attributes and metrics [as described above for WPDL], but by name, with > a list of substitutions for each name, and a fallback specification of > "serif" or "sans-serif". This is pretty thin stuff, and it begs the > question of how those font substitutions lists are generated. Most font > matching questions, such as possed in this thread, would probably go > away with answers to these more basic questions.
Can't answer your questions, but this might be of interest: <http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/metrical-equivalent-fonts-and-font.html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
