I don't know why they changed all the names. I downloaded the font fresh, and found that all the names, including names in the Postscript fonts (both the PC and Mac versions), have changed.
Perhaps they are doing this to discourage people from using this font and encourage them buy the paid version instead... :-/
There may be plenty of other reasons, too.
<< dingbest.ttf >>
This font has fewer characters than Dingbests-Regular, and it seems broken. pfaedit says "TTF has bad glyph count field", and if i install it on linux, Inkscape sees no characters in it (all are empty rectangles). The TTF file you sent is 36697 bytes (in case it was truncated or corrupted). So maybe they redid and renamed the font exactly because the old one was broken (the new one works OK for me on both platforms).
Can you provide another example of a valid font which Inkscape sees on one platform but does not see on another?
On another topic, as a person using Chinese, can you comment on this post:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7449173
Do you think adding this capability to Inkscape would be useful?
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:10:44PM +0000, bulia byak wrote:
<< dingbest.ttf >>
This font has fewer characters than Dingbests-Regular, and it seems broken. pfaedit says "TTF has bad glyph count field", and if i install it on linux, Inkscape sees no characters in it (all are empty rectangles). The TTF file you sent is 36697 bytes (in case it was truncated or corrupted). So maybe they redid and renamed the font exactly because the old one was broken (the new one works OK for me on both platforms).
Hmm, this is getting stranger and stranger. Despite the warning from pfaedit, the old one did work ok for me on both Linux and Windows; other than inkscape not finding it on Win32, I have never encountered any problems.
Can you provide another example of a valid font which Inkscape sees on one platform but does not see on another?
I'll try to find one when I get back to Windows next week.
On another topic, as a person using Chinese, can you comment on this post:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7449173
Do you think adding this capability to Inkscape would be useful?
I never thought about it, because I always edit text using Text and Fonts. However, if Text and Fonts is going away, this definitely would be useful (or perhaps "must be done" if we don't want to lose existing functionality).
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