Public bug reported:
Hi,
the font configs just caused me lots of headache.
I have a single TTF font (in this case Swiss 721 Bold Rounded BT), where
the font foundry for some reason chose to call the subfamily name given
in the TTF file 'Bold'. Which is confusing, since the font is not really
that bold, but that's the way it is.
Since this is just a single font and not a family, it causes fontconfig to
generate synthetic fonts, i.e. it makes four out of one: The regular
(unmodified), the bold, the italic, and the bold italic.
That's where trouble begins. Since the original font is already named
bold, there are suddenly two bold fonts, confusing all software that
handles fonts by family and subfamily, e.g. libreoffice.
1) It is in general not a good idea to generate synthetic fonts that cannot be
distinguished from real font families.
2) It is a bad idea to generate synthatic fonts which have the same sub
name as the original font.
regards
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: fontconfig-config 2.11.94-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Jun 16 13:24:01 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (54 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: fontconfig
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1593196
Title:
synthetic font generation causes confusion
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Hi,
the font configs just caused me lots of headache.
I have a single TTF font (in this case Swiss 721 Bold Rounded BT),
where the font foundry for some reason chose to call the subfamily
name given in the TTF file 'Bold'. Which is confusing, since the font
is not really that bold, but that's the way it is.
Since this is just a single font and not a family, it causes fontconfig to
generate synthetic fonts, i.e. it makes four out of one: The regular
(unmodified), the bold, the italic, and the bold italic.
That's where trouble begins. Since the original font is already named
bold, there are suddenly two bold fonts, confusing all software that
handles fonts by family and subfamily, e.g. libreoffice.
1) It is in general not a good idea to generate synthetic fonts that cannot
be distinguished from real font families.
2) It is a bad idea to generate synthatic fonts which have the same
sub name as the original font.
regards
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: fontconfig-config 2.11.94-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Jun 16 13:24:01 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (54 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: fontconfig
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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