Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Little problem with the Vegur font

Hi Drew, all,

drew schrieb:
> On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 23:16 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote:
> > Hi Drew, hi Astron!
> > [...]
> >
> > Hillar was so kind and adapted some characters - he provided it here:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/design@libreoffice.org/msg00468.html
> >
> > Could you please install it and provide feedback whether it behaves
> > better? I've never designed Spanish material, so I simply lack the
> > answer.
>
> Alright well my feedback is that this isn't going so well.
>
> I installed the file referenced in the email, under Linux 64bt (Ubuntu)
> GNOME (a few times - with and without the old vegur files on the system)
>
> Results [GIMP and InkScape]
>   - only light font is available. Regular, Medium and Bold actually use
> the Light font. Space character is so small that the break between words
> is for all intent an purpose none-existent.

The OTF link (http://ubuntuone.com/p/Zmf/) is called Medium, but the 
properties describe them as Light. I thought I installed four different 
files, but I can't find them again.

Nevertheless you're right: The blank width has been reduced (probably on 
error), so it can't be used at the moment.

> - the height metric changed a bit, the updated font is slightly taller
> then it was from the Oct 2010 files

Didn't compare.
> Results [LibreOffice (3.3.2)]
> - Vegur again only displays light
> - New twist, bold a word with special characters (some - the ones used
> for Spanish) now they display as blank spaces. [see screenshot]
> http://lo-portal.us/temp/vegur-libo.png

It seems that the font doesn't only contain the Light version - 
otherwise the bold characters would be calculated from the light ones 
without losing them in Bold.

But for the moment this font is not able to be used in languages with 
unsupported characters.

So we are in a similar situation as last year in the OOo branding team.

Over there we searched thoroughly and decided to use M+ P1 as 
accompanying font for the OOo logo.

I'd suggest to do the same here until the work on the Vegur font reaches 
a more or less final status:

http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/design/index-en.html#prop

Direct download: 
http://downloads.sourceforge.jp/mplus-fonts/6650/mplus-TESTFLIGHT-038.tar.gz

I don't know at the moment if this archive works on Windows too, but I 
can't spend the time to look at it in dept at the moment.

Best regards

Bernhard

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