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Some fonts are not available in Linux #73

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Change the Font Family in iReader Options
2.Use iReader to read an article
3.See if the font has changed

What is the expected output?
Every font family should produce a different result in iReader

What do you see instead?
Only Georgia and Verdana changes the result. All other fonts are displayed in 
the same way.

Operating system:
Ubuntu 10.04 amd64

I guess that the problem is most fonts are not installed in Ubuntu. I only have 
Georgia, Verdana and Times New Roman (I have mscorefonts package installed).

Probably there is no easy solution for this, because most of the fonts missing 
are proprietary or have licence problems. 

May be a workaround can be to not show as an option the font that are no 
available in the system

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nicocarb...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2010 at 9:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Good point, it's worth considering.
May you suggest some fonts, available on Ubuntu by default, to add them to the 
font list?

Original comment by Mohamma...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2010 at 9:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
There are a lot of free fonts available in Ubuntu, but I am not an expert in 
this subject and I wouldn't feel comfortable opining which fonts has the best 
readability.
I could suggest checking this fonts I found searching in the internet about 
this subject:

http://grigio.org/node/131

Thank you for your work.

Original comment by nicocarb...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2010 at 10:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
That should be taken to consideration: the font should include latin, cyrillic 
and other types of fonts, otherwise it will not work on some sites written in 
languages that differ from English.

Original comment by evgen...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2010 at 6:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It would be great if iR included "custom font family" option or at least some 
popular serif families, such as DejaVu Serif, Liberation Serif, Droid Serif, 
Gentium etc.

Original comment by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2010 at 10:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
is it possible to use google font api (http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/) ?

Original comment by st.ho...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2011 at 4:34