Ubuntu Font Testing
Nicholas Skaggs
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
Thu Jan 7 15:32:56 UTC 2016
The font requires some other changes in Xenial, hence it's limitation to
being only in Xenial. So yes, please do test in Xenial. If you just
install the font itself on an older distro, the non-Western font tweaks
for things like Arabic and Hebrew won't be there.
Nicholas
On 01/06/2016 01:29 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
> Ah OK, so to be 100% clear, is it worth checking this font out in Wily
> or only in its default configuration in Xenial?
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Nicholas Skaggs
> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>>
> wrote:
>
> 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>
> <mailto: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>>
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> <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
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> <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,
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> <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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