[Bug 96513] Re: Font selection issues (style collapsing) in Gnome 2.18 (pango)

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       Status: Confirmed => Expired

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Title:
  Font selection issues (style collapsing) in Gnome 2.18 (pango)

Status in Pango:
  Expired
Status in pango1.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  With a number of more 'exotic' (often commercial) fonts that do not
  follow the Regular/Italic/Bold/Bold Italic structure, Gnome
  applications (and by extension, most probably Pango) in Ubuntu Feisty
  Fawn Beta 1 is unable to properly present and use available fonts.
  More specifically it collapses styles together. For example, supposing
  a font contains styles "Light", "Regular", "Semibold", "Bold" and
  "Black" each having roman and oblique (italic) variants. Gnome (pango)
  displays all of the possible choices, but selecting a number of them
  would result in the same font style. e.g. selecting 'regular' and
  'light' would both use the 'light' style.

  This is probably a regression from earlier versions, as Edgy and
  Dapper did not exhibit this behaviour (Breezy did). This is also well-
  documented in the Gnome Bugzilla repository (apologies,
  bugzilla.gnome.org is offline at the time of filing this bug) and also
  mentioned in the freedesktop bugzilla repository. However, this does
  not seem like a fontconfig issue, but a pango issue. KDE 3.5.6
  included in 'Feisty Beta 1' properly presents AND uses all installed
  font and does not exhibit this behaviour.

  While it might be possible, in some cases, to overcome this problem by
  using a custom .fonts.conf with <match> this should not be required
  for the fonts to work properly in a typical installation. Typical
  fonts that exhibit this issue are included in families provided by BT
  (Bitstream) and Adobe.

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