On 2016-02-20 14:03, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
For most of my work I use only Arial. I change everything to Arial. After the first font change (where the prior fonts became unavailable) the slight spacing changes required me to adjust the format of all my manuals. I also need consistent spacing when editing and producing PDFs across Linux, win and OSX and in PDFs distributed and read (in English) in any country. To minimise the issues I have had I would recommend that with what ever new font is adopted, all previous fonts are still packaged with LO, or at lease provided as an add on package.On 02/19/2016 01:21 PM, Jan Holesovsky wrote:Hi Francisco, Francisco Adrián Sánchez píše v Ne 14. 02. 2016 v 14:19 -0300:Please, reconsider the use of Carlito as a *default* font. It has seriousdesign issues which came with the "modification" of the original font, Lato, from which Carlito takes its symbols. For example, Carlitos "eight" character is taller than the rest, making documents look weird: http://6g6.eu/sih0-carloto-vs-lato-3.png This is because the symbol it self is taller, and it isn't a hintingproblem. This is a comparison of "O", "zero" and "eight" characters madewith FontForge: http://6g6.eu/sih0-carloto-vs-lato-2.pngOn the other hand, I haven't found any flaw in Caladea's design. However,Caladea has a smaller symbol base than Cambria. Thus, we would be *discriminating* Greek and Cyrillic-writer people. Thus, unless Carlito's design is revised and corrected, and Caladea'ssymbol base is completed, IMHO those typefaces shouldn't be the _default_typefaces in LibreOffice documents.These are good points; luckily these sound like fixable problems :-) Can you please collect the problems more precisely - which exact characters (or character ranges) are missing, what characters have design problems, etc. Also if you can double-check the metrics compatibility with the C* fonts (like if the pair kerning is really the same etc.) [I believe they really are, but in case there are some corner cases, or anything.] Based on that, I'd ask the TDF Board to consider a tender to fix such Carlito and Caladea issues; I hope it might fit the 2016 UX budget. Thank you for your help! All the best, KendyPersonally, I think you cannot have any font that has "everything" for "everyone's" needs.I really thing we need to have a good/free unicode font that has many of the characters/glyphs that are available.Actually, I may have the largest font collection of most people using LibreOffice [14+ GB worth of TTF and OTF fonts]. Seems to me that most of the non-specialty fonts seem to be "similar" to each other serif to serif and sans to sans. Yes there are minor differences, but unless you compared them side-by-side, you may not easily tell the difference between them.I do wish LO can find a set of the best freely available fonts to bundle with LO's installations, but that is really easy to say and not easy to do. I end up with 250 to 500+ font files, depending on what the system is being used for, or how long it has been since I last looked as removing the fonts I have not used for months or years. IT seems that I keep adding fonts with specific names - like Carlito, Caladea, Droid, and many others - that people have indicated was needed or was mentioned in "conversations" like the one that is on these email lists. On this Ubuntu 15.10 [64 bit] laptop I have 490 files in the .font folder [unknown how many font names there are]. Actually this figure is after I reduced the number of fonts [names] by a third or so in January.
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