Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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1.0
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None
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None
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Operating System: Linux
Platform: PC
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52290
Description
If one has a collection of faces for a font, some of which are condensed and some which are not, fop doesn't offer any way to select between them.
According to the XSL-FO standard it appears that the "font-stretch" property should be used to pick between condensed/expanded/regular faces of a font. font-stretch is documented as unimplemented in fop. The only questions about on the mailing list have referred to using font-stretch to artificially condense or expand a regular face, which is not what I need to do, and an idea that was rejected anyway.
It looks like Fop stores font info as (family, style, weight) triplets, where "style" here refers to oblique/regular. It doesn't seem to have to track any additional style attributes like small-caps or whether the face is a condensed or expanded face.
To support font-stretch, fop will need to:
- Identify whether a font face is condensed/expanded/regular when examining it
- Track additional font metadata, not just the basic font-triplet, treating
condensed and non-condensed faces as different fonts. - Consider the value of font-stretch when matching fonts.
There are some free condensed fonts, including http://dejavu-fonts.org/ which has a variety of condensed faces, so this isn't something that requires commercial fonts (though it'll be mostly useful with them).