OO.o can not handle fonts with more than the 4 legacy styles

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------- Additional comments from beppec56openoffice.org Mon Oct 15 07:21:57 +0000 2007
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After some exchange on this thread:
http://gsl.openoffice.org/s
ervlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=1877392
I spent some time to dig into the way of font listing made
by fontconfig, I
discovered IMHO that though fontconfig uses the TrueType
font file data to give
the application a possibility to group the fonts by
Preferred Family (for
preferred family grouping) and Preferred Subfamily (for
preferred family
grouping), OOo UI is not ready for that at the moment, so
aren't some of the
oldest TrueType fonts still around today (among them some
proprietary I bought
for professional reason).

My proposal, at least for the time being, is that we stick
with the current UI
with the four available standard styles usable and use the
grouping provided by
the font designer (see the previously attached screenshot).

The patch I'm going to attach is addressing this issue in
Linux platforms that
use fontconfig.
The patch is m233 based, but I applied it without problem to
2.3.0.
What happens when fontconfig is not used is to be checked.

I'll attach a Calc test file I used to check for DejaVu
fonts in both Linux and
Windows platforms, just to see if the font naming was
consistent between the two.

I checked with the proprietary fonts I have and all of them
are now visible on
Linux.

To obtain the correct style name a small correction to the
TrueType name table
discovery procedure was needed (fontmanager.cxx). Please
check if the string
conversion is all right, especially the returned value for
Apple in sfc.cxx
(where the TT font file is scanned for names).
This little change has a side effect, though: the name of
the font style are not
localized, since they are taken from the font file.

I added some comments where the relevant names are read from
TT file, for posterity.

Before starting OOo with the patch applied, the font cache
file <user private
configuration directory>/user/psprint/pspfontcache must
be deleted (or check for
a way to do it).

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