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[ft-devel] Problem sniffing font weight/width


From: Deron Kazmaier
Subject: [ft-devel] Problem sniffing font weight/width
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 11:14:10 -0600
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421)

Hi,

This is probably not a freetype problem, but maybe someone here can point me in a direction that helps. I have a couple of fonts in which the OS2 structure contains bogus weights. For example, a (Mac) Helvetica.dfont that the Helvetica Bold font weight is the same as the Regular weight, but the Bold Italic weight is (correctly) larger. The Helvetica font with 10.4 is correct, but the 10.5 is version is hosed. The LinotypeUnivers font I have is even worse. It has a couple dozen weights, widths, plus italics and probably 2/3 report wrong widths and weights.

I am assuming that there must be some Mac resource or?? that is correctly identifying the weights, or Mac apps would not work with these fonts. Sadly, I expect this from free fonts, but these are anything but!

Thanks for any ideas. Right now I am getting around this by examining the style name.

Deron Kazmaier





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