Re: Issue: Button to enable Windows standard fonts for FOP disabled for MacOS users

Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:30:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.editors.xxe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry for taking so long to reply. Currently very busy working on 
another project. We'll try to fix this issue ASAP and we'll get back to 
you if we have more questions.


On 1/24/24 19:34, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> The FOP preferences panel, has as button called "Use Windows® standard 
> fonts".
> 
> It turnes out that for users of recent versions of MacOS, that 
> particular button is disabled.
> 
> And the explanation the disablement, is probably found in the XXE Help 
> documents, which says:
> 
>     Note that theUse Windows® standard fontsbutton is grayed if
>     theArialfont is not found in the standard fonts folder of your system.
> 
> Because, it turns out that on MacOS, the Arial font has been moved to a 
> sub folder of the standard fonts folder, to a folder called Supplemental:
> 
> /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial.ttf
> 
> If this is indeed the explanation, would it not be rather simple to 
> update the FOP add on to consider the Supplemental folder the standard 
> fonts folder, so that the "Use Windows® standard fonts" button could 
> work again?
> 


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