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bug #36232: Windows 7 strange bug with installation/font control panel

Submitted by:  Steve White <Stevan_White>
Submitted on:  Tue 17 Apr 2012 07:49:17 PM UTC  
 
Category: installationSeverity: 4 - Important
Item Group: installationStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Steve White <Stevan_White>
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: development

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Thu 19 Apr 2012 07:00:42 PM UTC, comment #2:

Well, Emmanuel,
you saved me.

For whatever reason, I had discounted this possibility. And I spent numerous evenings of my life trying various other ideas to fix this.

I had no idea of this right-click trick, and had struggled with that myself -- thinking I suppose that FontForge was automatically implementing some standard.

I have already changed the French names for Sans.

Thanks very much!

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Wed 18 Apr 2012 11:43:04 PM UTC, comment #1:

Changing the Styles(Subfamily) TTF Name from “BoldItalic” to “Bold Italic” (or “BoldOblique” to “Bold Oblique”), solved the problem for me, that space seems to have a great importance. To be able to change this value you must first rihgt-click on it and select “Detach from PostScript Names”.

And by the way, in FreeSans, change for French the Styles(Subfamily) “GrasItalique” to “Gras Italique” and Full Name to “FreeSans Gras Italique”.

I found it by comparing with other bold italic fonts.

Emmanuel Vallois <emmanuel_vallois>
Tue 17 Apr 2012 07:49:17 PM UTC, original submission:

The big bad bug that has delayed a release for months.

Install the latest FreeFont in Windows 7, by just copy-pasting the files into the Fonts Control Panel. They seem to install OK. But in the new panel, faces in a family are grouped together in folders. And... for the FreeFont Faces, it shows -- all but the bold-oblique face.

Delete the family. Then see the missing face.

(Often it mysteriously says that some app is still using one of the faces. Close all obvious open apps, it still says something is using it. But I think that's something different. Sometimes on re-start, it stops this complaint.)

Tried all sorts of things, twiddling all sorts of settings, tried fixing complaints of MS Volt, etc etc.

I still don't know what is responsible for this problem. If I could just be satisfied that it isn't somehow FreeFont, I would release the thing.

Experiments
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Try installing one at a time. It seems to have something to do with the boldoblique.

Tried making a minimal font, first by cutting FreeMono down.

Then tried building a minimal font, using mostly the default FontForge settings. Same results.

So it isn't FreeFont per se.

Tried building with distribution fontforge 20110222, as well as recent Git pulls. No improvement.

Maybe the 2010 release of fontforge is better, but I haven't managed to build it yet.

Yet... other free fonts (such as DejaVu) do not show this problem.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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    Thu 03 May 2012 03:37:45 PM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusFix posted=>Fixed
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    Thu 19 Apr 2012 08:39:30 PM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusNeed info=>Fix posted

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