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Barlow: a straight-sided sans-serif superfamily
https://tribby.com/fonts/barlow
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Problems with Umlauts #96

Open gstangl opened 6 months ago

gstangl commented 6 months ago

I have problems with German umlauts in Google Docs. It looks fine when I export it to PDF. When I print it, it looks all wrong, though. The umlauts are all displaced.

I attached a screenshot. On the left is the original PDF, on the right is a scan of the printout. PDF vs Scan

kenmcd commented 6 months ago

My guess is you are using the TTF fonts. On my phone at the moment so I cannot check the fonts...but Some printer drivers cannot handle nested components - and the components (the umlauts here) end up in odd places. OTF fonts cannot use components so they do not have this issue. So the work-around is to use the OTF fonts instead.

Jolg42 commented 5 months ago

I didn't test this yet, but maybe it's worth trying:

@gstangl A colleague reported a similar visual issue, but the rendering is of a webpage in a browser, about the backtick character. See image (9) I told them to try using the latest version of the font here https://github.com/jpt/barlow/tree/1.5/fonts

jpt commented 5 months ago

https://github.com/jpt/barlow/archive/refs/heads/1.5.zip

I have pushed an update that should fix this, can you try the fonts in archive above?

Jolg42 commented 5 months ago

The problem I mentioned in my previous comment with the back-ticks is fixed in that new version. Thanks a lot 🙌🏼 💚