[Bug 475889] Re: Arial Narrow: not recognised
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On 2008-10-12T18:11:52+00:00 Julian wrote:
Created attachment 320146
Confused gtk2 font selector
Description of problem:
Going through various bug reports, mailing list posts and so on I came to the conclusion that applications are being currently fixed in order to support extended fonts attibutes, and that gtk2 font selector is the one that should work properly. Granted, it works for say DejaVu LGC condensed, but does not for Arial Narrow (the condensed glyphs are to be found in separate files, copied over from XP install into .fonts). fc-list outputs the following:
[jsikorski at snowball ~]$ fc-list | grep Arial
Arial Black:style=Normalny,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
Arial,Arial Narrow:style=Normalny,Narrow,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
Arial:style=Pogrubiona kursywa,Negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Bold Italic,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Negrito Itálico,Полужирный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,Krepko poševno,nghiêng đậm,Lodi etzana
Arial,Arial Narrow:style=Pogrubiona kursywa,Narrow,Negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Bold Italic,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Negrito Itálico,Полужирный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,Krepko poševno,Lodi etzana
Arial:style=Kursywa,Cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Italic,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,Itálico,Курсив,İtalik,Poševno,nghiêng,Etzana
Arial:style=Normalny,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Regular,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,thường,Arrunta
Arial,Arial Narrow:style=Pogrubiony,Narrow,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Bold,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,Lodia
Arial:style=Pogrubiony,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Bold,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,đậm,Lodia
Arial,Arial Narrow:style=Kursywa,Narrow,Cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Italic,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,Itálico,Курсив,İtalik,Poševno,Etzana
[jsikorski at snowball ~]$
Gtk2 font selector gets confused and shows each of the 4 basic styles
twice (see attachment), with no visible difference whatsoever. The only
application I have found to be able to distinguish between the Narrow
and normal styles is the KDE's system settings > installed fonts thingy
(also see attachment)
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fontconfig-2.5.0-2.fc9.x86_64
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install microsoft core fonts using an rpm package
2. copy over arian{n,ni,nb,nbi}.ttf from a windows installation
3. run fc-cache
4. attempt to select one of the narrow glyphs in the font selector
Actual results:
Narrow glyphs are unavailable
Expected results:
Able to select narrow glyphs
Additional info:
Feel free to reassing this bug, I wasn't sure what to assign it to
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On 2008-10-12T18:13:05+00:00 Julian wrote:
Created attachment 320147
KDE System Settings aware of the Narrow glyphs
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On 2008-10-12T18:37:14+00:00 Julian wrote:
This might be relat
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On 2008-10-12T18:38:20+00:00 Julian wrote:
This might be related to the mentioned freedesktop bug, but since there
was no response in 4 months, I thought that filing it here as well might
be a good idea.
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On 2009-06-10T02:56:34+00:00 Bug wrote:
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On 2009-06-10T11:12:18+00:00 Julian wrote:
Created attachment 347200
Confused gtk font selector in LANG=C locale
Still present in Fedora 11.
I think the problem might be related to localised names of the narrow font. With LANG=C shown above, the errors are different. Font selection will yield the following (from the top): 4 times narrow, normal, italic, bold and bold italic. Narrow italic, narrow bold and narrow bold italic are still MIA. It's a little improvement over pl_PL locale, but far from a working solution nontheless.
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** Changed in: fontconfig (Fedora)
Status: Unknown => Won't Fix
** Changed in: fontconfig (Fedora)
Importance: Unknown => Medium
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Title:
Arial Narrow: not recognised
Status in Fontconfig:
Confirmed
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in fontconfig package in Fedora:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Binary package hint: fontconfig
I installed Arial Narrow by copying the TTF files from my windows font
directory.
after running fc-cache -f, font dialogs show duplicate entries for
each style, but no narrow styles, see screenshot. Both duplicates
select the same variant.
gnome-font-viewer shows the fonts correctly, and display as style
"Narrow", for all 4 variants. For the regular arial fonts, the styles
are "Regular", "Bold", "Italic" and "Bold Italic"
Steps to reproduce:
- copy the fonts from the windows install:
$ cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/other/
$ sudo cp /windows/C/WINDOWS/Fonts/ARIALN*
- set correct permissions
$ sudo chmod 644 ARIALN*
- update font cache
$ fc-cache -fv
expected result:
font dialogs show regular and narrow variants for Arial, or a separate font Arial Narrow
obtained result
font dialogs show duplicate entries for each style.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 5 22:33:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
Package: fontconfig 2.6.0-1ubuntu12
ProcEnviron:
LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: fontconfig
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
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