[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 12735] Condensed faces not recognized in KDE

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12735





--- Comment #6 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com>  2008-08-13 11:01:54 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Your comment 
> 
> > [...] KControl won't even show you the installed condensed fonts, however,
> > don't be mistaken, they can be installed, and funny enough, you even can
> > install them with KControl... 
> 
> seems to be not very helpful, as long as you don't explain, how one can
> install the font...

easy, just install them like any other font in KControl, just don't expect to
see any results in KControl, but they do get installed like that.


> btw:
> 
> On http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> DejaVu SansCondensed is sayd to be a font family. So it's absolutely not
> clear, why one should look for it in the family DejaVu Sans...

Well, the statement on the home page is true and false at the same time. You
see, there's a difference between "family" and "preferred family" here, which
are defined in the font. For sans condensed, the family is "DejaVu Sans
Condensed", and the preferred family is "DejaVu Sans". Now, fontconfig doesn't
care about whether applications depending on it support it, so it returns the
preferred family to them, hence you'll see condensed as part of the DejaVu Sans
family. If you could install some old fontconfig version that didn't handle
preferred family tags, you'd see them as the "DejaVu Sans Condensed" family,
but with the same fonts.

So, the condensed fonts are both in their own family and a style in the normal
stretch family. It just depends on how your system handles the fonts.


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