Ubuntu Font Testing
Nicholas Skaggs
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
Wed Jan 6 16:44:06 UTC 2016
Chris, that's correct. You should have 0.84, which is the new version.
Are you running an up to date Wily?
Checkout
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/ubuntu-font-family-sources
Nicholas
On 01/05/2016 05:23 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
> Nicholas,
>
> What I see when I execute this:
>
> pango-view --font="Ubuntu 48" --markup --text='<span
> fallback="false"> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</span>'
>
> is (all on one line):
>
> 1. 0.830 in very small text
> 2. something that looks like 88 on a 7-segment display
> 3. a space
> 4. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
>
> So just to be super-clear, I don't see a ".84" in that string. I also
> don't see it in the text of this e-mail; what I see looks a single
> glyph whose strokes make 0.830 in very small letters.
>
> I had an inspiration and checked with my font view application. It
> tells me my Ubuntu font is:
>
> Name: Ubuntu
>
> Style: Regular
>
> Type: TrueType font
>
> Version: 0.83
>
> Copyright: Copyright 2011 Canonical Ltd. Licensed under the Ubuntu
> Font License 1.0
>
> Does this mean I don't have the new version?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Nicholas Skaggs
> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Chris, ahh. Yea, the new version is .84, and you can confirm you
> have it by seeing 0.84 in the beginning:
>
> pango-view --font="Ubuntu 48" --markup --text='<span
> fallback="false"> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
> dog.</span>'
>
> The other font you don't have. I removed it from the directions.
> It's from when we did the PPA testing. Thanks for catching this!
>
> Nicholas
>
> On 01/05/2016 03:40 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
>
> Nicholas, a further question if I may:
>
> I am running 100% up to date Wily.
>
> When, as per the instructions, I execute:
>
> pango-view --font="UbuntuPrerelease0910 48" --markup
> --text='<span fallback="false"> The quick brown fox jumps
> over the lazy dog.</span>'
>
> I see what appears to be exactly the same display as when I
> execute
>
> pango-view --font="Deja Vu 48" --markup --text='<span
> fallback="false"> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
> dog.</span>'
>
> That is, the text looks to be rendered in exactly the same
> font: same glyphs, same size, everything. And pretty clearly
> different from plain old Ubuntu.
>
> Any ideas? Is UbuntuPrerelease0910 not really installed in my
> Wily and somehow I'm getting Deja Vu instead? Should I be
> asking this question somewhere else?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Nicholas Skaggs
> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>>> wrote:
>
> Yea, crazy crazy link. I send in plain text, so I didn't think
> about it. The link has spaces in it.
>
> Let me just end the madness by fixing the wiki:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFontFamily/Testing
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 01/05/2016 03:08 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
>
> Nicolas, that link redirected me to
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Home?action=show&redirect=Ubuntu
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Nicholas Skaggs
> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>>
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>>>> wrote:
>
> Some of you have been at this already, but either way,
> please have
> a look at the new Ubuntu Font if you are running
> Wily. It
> has some
> fixes in it, specifically we need to verify 4 bugs
> + the
> Arabic
> and Hebrew fixes. Full details can be found here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu Font Family/Testing
>
> Happy Testing!
>
> Nicholas
>
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