Ubuntu Font Testing
Nicholas Skaggs
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
Wed Jan 6 17:23:07 UTC 2016
Blargh! It's Xenial. Only in Xenial. Wow, and no one else noticed this
for 2 days. I'm sorry. LOL, notice my source link below?
Nicholas
On 01/06/2016 12:06 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
> Nicholas, I just ran today's updates (mostly ffmpeg in my case). I
> have checked the updates settings: all "install updates from" boxes
> checked, updates checked daily, display immediately for both security
> and other updates.
>
> The strange little glyph still shows as 0.830 in both the gmail window
> and with pango-view.
>
> Checking synaptic, I have ttf-ubuntu-font-family installed. I
> searched for other packages with the terms "font ubuntu" and "font
> release" but nothing obvious there.
>
> I checked the Ubuntu font with the font viewer application and it's
> still reported as 0.83.
>
> I checked my .fonts directory and there are no ubuntu-related fonts
> there. Nothing in /usr/local/share/fonts.
>
> In /usr/share/fonts/ubuntu-font-family, all the .ttf files are dated
> 10 Jul 2015 except the UbuntuMono files which are dated 26 Sep 2011.
>
> I don't see anything in /usr/share/fonts that looks as though it could
> be a new release of ubuntu fonts.
>
> I should mention that this machine is upgraded from 15.04 (ie not a
> fresh install), in case that matters.
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Nicholas Skaggs
> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>>
> wrote:
>
> 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>
> <mailto: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>>
> <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:
>
> 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
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> <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
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> <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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