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>
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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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