[Bug 458476] RFE: Support OpenType CFF fonts

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--- Comment #6 from Vasile Gaburici <gaburici at cs.umd.edu>  2008-08-09 13:01:02 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> For http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79878, Condensed, Expanded,
> etc fonts are covered by bug #436520 which dtardon is working on.
> 
> OOo discovers fonts through fontconfig, so if fontconfig doesn't know about
> them then we don't have a chance to even get started on using them. But I'll
> have a look at what we could do to use them assuming that they would get found

XeTeX, which uses fontconfig and ICU too, but has no problem finding them.
There are two ways to name an OpenType fonts, a legacy name/style and a
"preferred" (read new) name/style, which supports a lot of weights (ExtraLight
etc.). XeTeX actually recognizes only the (new) preferred names, but this is by
design
[https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=951385&aid=2035832&group_id=194926].
So, you can't blame this on fontconfig; fc-list shows both the preferred and
legacy names; the data structure has separate entries. XeTeX did have to patch
ICU in some places (it uses a modified version), but I don't know if this has
anything to do with font names. You can ask Jonathan Kew...

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