On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:19:36 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> dijo:
>2010/1/1 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/1/1 NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net>: >>> On 12/31/2009 04:13 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >>>> 2009/12/31 NoOp <snip>: >>>>> On 12/31/2009 11:12 AM, NoOp wrote: >>>>>> On 12/31/2009 10:27 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >>>>>> ... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am on Ubuntu 8.10,by the way, I'm not sure I mentioned thatβ¦ >>>>>>> My other machine, which is running OpenOffice.org 3.1, has >>>>>>> Ubuntu 9.10, and no issues with FreeSans or any other (I think) >>>>>>> fonts. >>>>>> >>>>>> Then probably JJJ has a valid point: >>>>>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont >>>>>> Jaunty & Intrepid use ttf-freefont (20080323-3) >>>>>> >>>>>> Download & try the 2009 version & see if that fixes the problem: >>>>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/karmic/ttf-freefont >>>>> Sorry, I gave you the link to the source, here is the deb: >>>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/ttf-freefont >>>> >>>> Okay, thanks. Seems like it was something wrong with the fonts >>>> after all. After installing the new ones all characters are now >>>> visible. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Johnny Rosenberg >>> >>> Actually you might want to thank John Jason Jordan (JJJ) as he's >>> the one the suggested changing the font... I just led you to where >>> it is :-) >> >> Well, I didn't express myself very clear, but my intention was to >> thank everyone for contributing with ideas and testing, but of course >> JJJ deserves an extra thank for solving my problem. Thanks again JJJ, >> if you read this! >> >> Regards >> >> Johnny Rosenberg >> >> >>> >>> All the best & Happy New Year(s). >>> >>> Gary >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org >>> >>> >> > >Even this new version of FreeSans seems to be incomplete. Characters >like musical symbols doesn't show up when Bold or Italic, but FreeSans >Normal works fine. Those characters are, among others: πππβ―βπππ >(Hopefully they display in this email). Well, it's not an >OpenOffice.org issue, but rather an FreeFonts issue, I guess, so my >problem is solved anyway, in the way that I now know why this happens. It is not at all unusual for a font designer to include more glyphs in the Regular version of a face than in the italic, bold, and bold-italic fonts. I am testing your πππβ―βπππ glyphs with Scribus, which will not fake a glyph. I find that none of these glyphs appear in even the Regular version of FreeSans. That is, OOo is faking the glyphs by borrowing them from some other font. I wish I knew how it does this, because it drives me nuts. As for why OOo does this, it does it because MS Office has always done so. And on recent versions of the MacOS the ability to substitute a glyph from another font for a missing glyph in the font being used is built into the operating system. Apparently users find this "feature" useful. Can you post the Unicode values for the glyphs above? With the Unicode values I can check the font in FontForge and then we'll know for sure if the font contains the glyphs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
