[tex-live] Palatino / figbas

[Khaled Hosny]

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