[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 40914] New: Feature request: provide the condensed fonts also with distinct names

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40914

           Summary: Feature request: provide the condensed fonts also with
                    distinct names
           Product: DejaVu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: General
        AssignedTo: dejavu-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: a.bocaniciu at computer.org


I believe that in your distribution you should provide the condensed fonts also
as fonts having distinct names (i.e. "DejaVu Sans Cond" & "DejaVu Serif Cond",
having the standard styles: Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique), not only as
styles of the existing fonts.

I have no idea what applications happen to be used by the developers of these
fonts, but even if these fonts have already existed for several years, I have
never been able to use them even for one second.

At least on Linux, where I have attempted to use them, I have never encountered
any useful application that would allow me to select successfully one of the
condensed fonts, i.e. no popular application, e.g. OpenOffice, Firefox, Opera,
Konqueror, etc. can use them.

This feature requires almost zero effort to implement, but would be helpful for
many people, because I have seen many other messages in various forums
complaining about the same thing.

In an ideal world, all the other applications should be rewritten, but this
will never happen. Since there exists a very simple solution for this problem,
it should be implemented.

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