SoaS includes lots of fonts that don't work in Write (Soas2-200903211320)

[garycmartin]

Just wanted to run through the fonts currently installed in Soas and indicate the ones that render correctly in Write, and the ones that don't. I'm sure OLPC's distro has a set of fonts that all functioned well in Write and very likely supported more language scripts (will go look-up that list following this ticket):

Bitstream Charter = good
Century Schoolbook L = good
Console = tiny letters that all overprint
Dingbats = Just Prints Uue Code For All Keys I Tried
Fixed = tiny letters that all overprint
Hershey-* (all 9 of them) = badly corrupted characters and broken line spacing
Lucida Typewriter = tiny letters that all overprint
MT Extra = good
MiscFixed = tiny letters that all overprint
Nimbus Mono L = good
Nimbus Roman No9 L = good
Nimbus Sans L = good
Standard Symbols L = just prints UUE code for all keys I tried
URW Bookman L = good
URW Chancery L = good
URW Gothic L = good
URW Palladio L = good
Utopia = good
cmbx10 = good
cmex10 = good
cmmi10 = no spaces work
cmr10 = good
console8x8 = tiny letters that all overprint
eufm10 = good
msam10 = good
msbm10 = good
wasy10 = good
Times New Roman = good

[garycmartin]

Just has a quick look at the 8.2 800 build - here are the fonts listed in Write:

Abyssinca SIL = good
DejaVu LGC Sans = good
DejaVu LGC Sans Mono = good
DejaVu LGC Serif = good
Garuda = good
Kinnari = good
Lohit Hindi = good (some uue characters but expected when testing in English)
Loma = good
Mothanna = good (some uue characters but expected when testing in English)
Nafees = good
Norasi = good
Purisa = good
Sawasdee = good
Thabit = good
Tlwg Typist = good
TlwgMono = good
TlwgTypewriter = good
Umpush = good
Waree = good
DejaVu Serif = good

[erikos]

So the fonts that does not render correctly in Soas - are not present in the OLPC build? We could remove those of possible and gain some space I guess.

[garycmartin]

Replying to erikos:

So the fonts that does not render correctly in Soas - are not present in the OLPC build? We could remove those of possible and gain some space I guess.

Yes, that's my understanding, but I'm just going by what I see in Write. I'm not sure if it is showing all installed fonts or just some sub selection.

[garycmartin]

Need to remember to check this again in latest SoaS. FWIW, I'm not sure if this is an abiword issue not supporting some fonts types, a distro issue shipping flakey fonts, or a mix of both, I do know my F11 sugar-jhbuild also has a bunch of fonts (large number of them actually) that don't render correctly in Write.

[sascha_silbe]

Bulk change distribution=SoaS -> component=SoaS

[sdz]

We're pulling in Mirabelle now nothing but the required fonts, as well as Liberation, Dejavu and Google Droid. Hopefully this is now alright.