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

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, 

Yes, it is.

> 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?
> 

This bug is now fixed in (not yet released) XXE V10.7. Thank you for 
taking the time to report it.



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