Free Font Replacement

[gseaman]

I just replaced "Times New Roman" with "Liberation Serif" in the source and demo files. I got over 2000 matches. I'm building it right now to see if anything breaks (0.9.4).

I packaged this program for pclinuxos and then tested in PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2009.1 and realized that webcore-fonts was a dependency. Is there a way to build with a command line switch to choose the default font. Or maybe and way to use a fallback or generic font family like in html?

Galen

[gseaman]

gseaman wrote:

Is there a way to build with a command line switch to choose the default font. Or maybe and way to use a fallback or generic font family like in html?

I find no problems with building this with Liberation Serif substituted for Times New Roman. Since 'Liberation Serif' is not in a default windows or mac install, this obviously not a fix for you. Is there a way to call for a second font if 'Times New Roman' is not installed? The patch I created is almost 15,000 lines and over 1mb. If it were just for me, this would be no big deal, but I am building packages for distribution with PCLinuxOS.

This is a fantastic program.

Galen

[gseaman]

gseaman wrote:

I find no problems with building this with Liberation Serif substituted for Times New Roman. ...

I've tested in PCLinuxOS and if I substitute "Serif" in place of "Times New Roman", it brings in the default serif font, just like in a web browser. It looks good and creates no additional dependencies. I wonder if this would also work in Windows and Mac systems?

Galen

[David Bolton-2]

gseaman wrote:

>
> gseaman wrote:
>  
>> I find no problems with building this with Liberation Serif substituted
>> for Times New Roman. ...
>>
>>    
>
> I've tested in PCLinuxOS and if I substitute "Serif" in place of "Times New
> Roman", it brings in the default serif font, just like in a web browser. It
> looks good and creates no additional dependencies. I wonder if this would
> also work in Windows and Mac systems?
>
> Galen
>  

Galen,

When I tried substituting "'Times New Roman'" for "serif" in the source
file for promenade.mscz it displayed with a sans-serif font that is used
by default for the menus in Windows XP. Not sure why.

When I replaced "'Times New Roman'" with "'Liberation Serif', 'Times New
Roman'" it displayed as Times New Roman when I opened the file using
MuseScore 0.9.5 RC 1, Windows XP.

David


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[gseaman]

David Bolton-2 (via Nabble) wrote:

> gseaman wrote:
>
>  >
>  > gseaman wrote:
>  >  
>  >> I find no problems with building this with Liberation Serif substituted
>  >> for Times New Roman. ...
>  >>
>  >>    
>  >
>  > I've tested in PCLinuxOS and if I substitute "Serif" in place of
> "Times New
>  > Roman", it brings in the default serif font, just like in a web
> browser. It
>  > looks good and creates no additional dependencies. I wonder if this
> would
>  > also work in Windows and Mac systems?
>  >
>  > Galen
>  >  
>
> Galen,
>
> When I tried substituting "'Times New Roman'" for "serif" in the source
> file for promenade.mscz it displayed with a sans-serif font that is used
> by default for the menus in Windows XP. Not sure why.
>
> When I replaced "'Times New Roman'" with "'Liberation Serif', 'Times New
> Roman'" it displayed as Times New Roman when I opened the file using
> MuseScore 0.9.5 RC 1, Windows XP.
>
> David
>
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That is great. I will include both fonts in my next build so that those
systems with the MS fonts installed will see exactly the same as the
windows users, and those that don't will have an excellent replacement
without requiring the installation of a new font.

Now I wonder what works for Mac users.

Thanks for the reply.

Galen