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A question of fonts
ivan:
As Dave says it is a PS printer font usually distributed with postscript printers. It will generally appear in the XWorkplace fonts section but that doesn't guarantee it will display in a browser or other OS/2 programs.
roberto:
--- Quote from: David Graser on June 13, 2021, 11:40:59 pm ---Where did you download it from?
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https://github.com/eBay/ebay.github.com/blob/master/assets/fonts/MarketSans-SemiBold-WebS.ttf
Saludos
Alex Taylor:
Judging by your screenshot, it actually appears to be working.
Believe it or not, that is actually the font's name that you see in the font folder. More accurately, it's the string which the font header has in its face name field.
My command-line font header tool reports the following on this font:
--- Code: ---FreeType 2 library initialized successfully.
Font (null) read successfully.
Names table contains 12 entries:
0: Plat 1, Enc 3, Lang 0x2, ID 4 [4 bytes]
1: Plat 3, Enc 1, Lang 0x409, ID 0 (U)"Copyright (c) 2016 Swiss Typefaces Sarl. All rights reserved."
2: Plat 3, Enc 1, Lang 0x409, ID 2 (U)"¶"
3: Plat 3, Enc 1, Lang 0x409, ID 3 (U)"Copyright (c) 2016 Swiss Typefaces Sarl. All rights reserved."
4: Plat 3, Enc 1, Lang 0x409, ID 4 (U)"¶"
5: Plat 3, Enc 1, Lang 0x409, ID 5 (U)"Version 1.000"
...
--- End code ---
Strings 2 and 4 are the font name strings.
Just to verify that this isn't some bug in FreeType (which my tool uses), I opened the font in FontLab Studio and examined the header there. I confirmed it has a null value as the family name, and a single junk character as the face name.
I also notice that the font's license field says that it's licensed exclusively for the use of eBay, Inc.
I conclude that this is a special font designed for a specific application, and is not designed for general use.
roberto:
--- Quote from: Alex Taylor on June 14, 2021, 11:43:11 pm ---Judging by your screenshot, it actually appears to be working.
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Yes I can see but Ican not use it. Except with the program DBCSMAP.EXE character map.
--- Quote ---Believe it or not, that is actually the font's name that you see in the font folder. More accurately, it's the string which the font header has in its face name field.
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It is a curious anomaly, especially if they have two fonts with the same name, and the same image. and only one can be seen with the program DBCSMAP.EXE , And according to the program, it appears with an empty or white *name*, and with a single junk character in *style*.
--- Quote ---Just to verify that this isn't some bug in FreeType (which my tool uses), I opened the font in FontLab Studio and examined the header there. I confirmed it has a null value as the family name, and a single junk character as the face name.
I also notice that the font's license field says that it's licensed exclusively for the use of eBay, Inc.
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Thank you very much for your effort and your time.
--- Quote ---I conclude that this is a special font designed for a specific application, and is not designed for general use.
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Yes, that's what it looks like.
Saludos
Wendy Krieger:
Marksym.ttf is a kind of wingding font, not a characte font. It;s not the thing one would want on the font palette, for example.
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