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Firefox and latest WorkplaceSans font...something's not right!

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Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hi Alex,


--- Quote from: Alex Taylor on May 26, 2016, 04:37:08 pm ---Comparative screen shots would help to understand what exactly you are seeing and (possibly) why.

You say you downloaded both the bitmapped and non bitmapped versions.  Which did you install? They can't both be installed (well, not successfully anyway).

Your reaction certainly suggests you have the non bitmapped versions installed.  Did you have the bitmapped versions installed before?

--- End quote ---

Correct, I never try to fix the two font releases, it is either the pure TTF or the pure bitmapped enhanced version. Right now I'm running TTF only.

OK, so here are the screenshots as attachments, wish I could in-line them but that seems to be only possible with a URL link, maybe I'm missing something though? lol

So, going by the filenames:

1) FF17_workplace_ttf_091.jpg - my current working font setup
2) FF17_workplace_ttf_101.jpg - the "bad" setup with the new 1.01 font release
3) FF17_workplace_ttf_101_userchrome_gone_fntcfgOLD.jpg - userChrome.css file gone, and using the old fntcfg
4) FF17_workplace_ttf_101_userchrome_gone_fntcfgNEW.jpg - userChrome.css file gone, and using the new fntcfg

So a couple of immediate findings:

1) dropping userChrome.css appears to have a significant impact, the font choices default to what FF is setup to use on our platform
2) there do not appear to be any differences between OLD and NEW fntcfg releases




Alex Taylor:
The problem is evidently in the rendering of Workplace Sans Bold.  In the second screenshot, it appears as though Firefox is actually drawing Workplace Sans Regular and attempting to 'fake bold' it through simulation.  I can only guess that it's doing this because mzfntcfgft is unable to find or load the actual Workplace Sans Bold font.

Silvan Scherrer:

--- Quote from: Alex Taylor on May 27, 2016, 01:55:23 pm ---The problem is evidently in the rendering of Workplace Sans Bold.  In the second screenshot, it appears as though Firefox is actually drawing Workplace Sans Regular and attempting to 'fake bold' it through simulation.  I can only guess that it's doing this because mzfntcfgft is unable to find or load the actual Workplace Sans Bold font.

--- End quote ---
I bet latest Firefox with the complete fontconfig/freetype combination does it way better.

regards
Silvan

Dariusz Piatkowski:

--- Quote from: Alex Taylor on May 27, 2016, 01:55:23 pm ---The problem is evidently in the rendering of Workplace Sans Bold...I can only guess that it's doing this because mzfntcfgft is unable to find or load the actual Workplace Sans Bold font.

--- End quote ---

I agree, that is certainly what it looks like. What is strange is that the BOLD version of the font is certainly present in the \psfonts directory, here are all of the WPS*.ttf files that I have:

=== START ===
[G:\psfonts]dir wpsu*

The volume label in drive G is OS2.
The Volume Serial Number is xxxx:xxxx.
Directory of G:\psfonts

 3-28-16   1:43a    163016           0  wpsu.ttf
10-16-12  11:55a     59984           0  wpsu.ttf.0_91
 3-28-16   1:43a    163016           0  wpsu.ttf.1_01
 8-15-15   3:43a     96328           0  wpsu.ttf.bitmap-1_00
 3-28-16   1:47a    183468           0  wpsu.ttf.bitmap_1_01
 3-28-16   1:44a    144696           0  wpsub.ttf
10-17-12   2:00p     56700           0  wpsub.ttf.0_91
 3-28-16   1:44a    144696           0  wpsub.ttf.1_01
 8-15-15   3:51a     97736           0  wpsub.ttf.bitmap-1_00
 3-28-16   1:48a    176356           0  wpsub.ttf.bitmap_1_01
10-16-12  11:57a    168948           0  wpsul.ttf
10-16-12  11:57a    168948           0  wpsul.ttf.0_91
       12 file(s)    1623892 bytes used
                   4579819 K bytes free
=== STOP ===

The WPS font browser folder certainly shows the BOLD version and selecting it opens up a sample window.

What else could I check? I suppose I could also un-install that particular font and re-install?

Dave Yeo:
It might be worth trying to uninstall and re-install. When I updated to 38esr and the new (real) fontconfig, WorkplaceSans looked horrible, or maybe the fallback looked horrible, and even the utilities didn't see the bold version. I updated to the latest and then things went back to normal.

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