Hi all, apologies if this is the wrong place or has been asked before. I looked through the archives, and my searches on Google were fruitless.
First of all, I am loving Inkscape. It's amazing.
Second, I'm having trouble with fonts. I have a downloaded font Lacuna (http://www.glashaus-design.com/), a really nice free font. The problem is that it comes in two styles: Lacuna Regular and Lacuna Italic, and I can't figure out how to make those two fonts appear as one typeface with two styles.
In practical terms: I'd like to select not "Lacuna Regular" or "Lacuna Italic", but "Lacuna", and then have regular by default and the italic style if I hit ctrl-I. Right now to get the true italic font I have to select it from the drop-down list of fonts; if I use ctrl-I I get the faked-out italic instead of the true style.
I have tried messing with the fonts.scale file so that Lacuna Regular and Lacuna Italic both appear to be styles of the family Lacuna, instead of two different families, but Inkscape did not pick this up.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Drew.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Drew Leske <dleske@...2716...> wrote:
Second, I'm having trouble with fonts. I have a downloaded font Lacuna (http://www.glashaus-design.com/), a really nice free font. The problem is that it comes in two styles: Lacuna Regular and Lacuna Italic, and I can't figure out how to make those two fonts appear as one typeface with two styles.
I think there's nothing Inkscape can do about it. It's just that these two fonts have different Family Name record, and are thus listed separately. You can fix this with a font editor - I just did it with Fontforge and it worked fine.
Hi Bulia, thanks for your response.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:58:58AM -0700, bulia byak wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Drew Leske <dleske@...2716...> wrote:
Second, I'm having trouble with fonts. ?I have a downloaded font Lacuna (http://www.glashaus-design.com/), a really nice free font. ?The problem is that it comes in two styles: Lacuna Regular and Lacuna Italic, and I can't figure out how to make those two fonts appear as one typeface with two styles.
I think there's nothing Inkscape can do about it. It's just that these two fonts have different Family Name record, and are thus listed separately. You can fix this with a font editor - I just did it with Fontforge and it worked fine.
I should have tried that, but I figured I was basically doing the same by munging fonts.dir and fonts.scale.
Thanks for taking the time to do this!
Drew.
Drew Leske, Senior Systems Administrator | dleske@...2716... Unix Services Team, University Systems | 250-472-5055 (office) University of Victoria | 250-588-4311 (cel)
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