Ubuntu
control-center package

gnome-font-viewer does not honour the '_Sample Text' attribute

Bug #57122 reported by Pascal de Bruijn on 2006-08-21

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	control-center (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Some TrueType fonts include a _Sample Text attribute which represents a string which can be used to displays the font in an effective manner.

Currently the following string is always used:
"The quicky brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789"

But when the '_Sample Text' attribute is defined that string should be used instead.

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote on 2006-08-21:

I thought that the _Sample Text attribute is often specified as the name of the font. In which case TQBFJOTLD is a superior phrase to demonstrate it.

Do you have a better suggestion?

Changed in control-center:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn) wrote on 2006-08-21:

Hmmm, well in that case yes...

But that would be broken behaviour on the part of that font... (at least I think so)...

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote on 2006-08-22:

It's a recommended mode of behaviour according to the Apple TrueType Reference Manual:

I'm going to reject this bug and let you talk with GNOME to figure out a sensible way to handle this.

Changed in control-center:
status:	Needs Info → Rejected

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Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn) wrote on 2006-08-22:

"Sample text. This can be the font name, or any other text that the designer thinks is the best sample text to show what the font looks like."

Well it's description is rather dubious. Indeed it may be the font name.

In that case, it might be best to leave things be.

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