[tex-live] Palatino / figbas
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Jan 10 19:05:55 CET 2011
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:26:09PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
> >|I originally reported this as a bug to OpenSuse, who have replied saying
> >|that I
> >|need to take it "upstream", which I think means you guys.
> >|
> >|When I viewed web pages with Palatino fonts (in any web browser) I
> >|was seeing
> >|strange versions of the digits 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9. I eventually traced
> >|this to
> >|the file /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/figbas/plrj.pfb - deleting
> >|that
> >|file and rebuilding the font cache fixed the issue.
>
>
> I'm the developer of the figbas fonts. The information in the .pfb file
> says that the Fontname is FiguredBassPalatino and the Family Name is
> Palatino. It seems that SUSE is using this font for rendering digits.
> I'm not familiar with how SUSE selects fonts but I think this is their
> issue. As far as I know, the font information is correct; if not I'll
> change it but I'll need authoritative guidance.
The family name should be the same as fontname, else certain
applications and libraries will recognise it as a "Palatino"
P.S. I don't think you can, legally, use the name Palatino because it is
trademarked, not even Zapf himself were able to use it for the version
he designed with URW.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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