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Status: Confirmed => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96513
Title:
Font selection issues (style collapsing) in Gnome 2.18 (pango)
Status in Pango:
Expired
Status in pango1.0 package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
With a number of more 'exotic' (often commercial) fonts that do not
follow the Regular/Italic/Bold/Bold Italic structure, Gnome
applications (and by extension, most probably Pango) in Ubuntu Feisty
Fawn Beta 1 is unable to properly present and use available fonts.
More specifically it collapses styles together. For example, supposing
a font contains styles "Light", "Regular", "Semibold", "Bold" and
"Black" each having roman and oblique (italic) variants. Gnome (pango)
displays all of the possible choices, but selecting a number of them
would result in the same font style. e.g. selecting 'regular' and
'light' would both use the 'light' style.
This is probably a regression from earlier versions, as Edgy and
Dapper did not exhibit this behaviour (Breezy did). This is also well-
documented in the Gnome Bugzilla repository (apologies,
bugzilla.gnome.org is offline at the time of filing this bug) and also
mentioned in the freedesktop bugzilla repository. However, this does
not seem like a fontconfig issue, but a pango issue. KDE 3.5.6
included in 'Feisty Beta 1' properly presents AND uses all installed
font and does not exhibit this behaviour.
While it might be possible, in some cases, to overcome this problem by
using a custom .fonts.conf with <match> this should not be required
for the fonts to work properly in a typical installation. Typical
fonts that exhibit this issue are included in families provided by BT
(Bitstream) and Adobe.
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