Comment 27 for bug 167353

Hi,

I'm seeing the same problem with Inkscape 0.46+devel r22575 (Nov 12 2009) (built on openSUSE 11.2).

E.g., I've installed only the following GillSans otf variants as system-wide fonts ...

 ls -1 *GillSans*
 GillSans-BoldCondensed.otf
 GillSans-BoldExtraCondensed.otf
 GillSans-BoldItalic.otf
 GillSans-Bold.otf
 GillSans-Condensed.otf
 GillSans-ExtraBoldDisplay.otf
 GillSans-ExtraBold.otf
 GillSans-Italic.otf
 GillSans-LightItalic.otf
 GillSans-Light.otf
 GillSans-LightShadowed.otf
 GillSans.otf
 GillSans-Shadowed.otf
 GillSans-UltraBoldCondensed.otf
 GillSans-UltraBold.otf

In both FontMatrix & Scribus (no pango?) I see these fonts as installed/active, and they're all usable.

In Inkscape, however, I see

 Font family: Gill Sans
  Style:
   Normal
   Condensed
   Light
   Italic
   Light Italic
   Bold
   Bold Condensed
   Bold Extra-Condensed
   Ultra-Bold
   Ultra-Bold Condensed
   Bold Italic
 Font Family: Gill Sans Light
  Style:
   Light
   Light Italic
   Bold
   Bold Italic

but NO trace of, e.g., the

 GillSans-ExtraBoldDisplay.otf
 GillSans-ExtraBold.otf

variants. Apart from working in/on Scribus, these are all Adobe .otf fonts that have been used on OSX with no apparent issues in any app.

I'm certainly no expert, but it seems to me that crafting workaround snippets is not the way to go for dealing with 'industry standard' fonts. Wouldn't it make more sense to do what Scribus does (part of the Libre Graphics project, like Inkscape, no?) or use _this_ discussion to get upstream (pango? fontconfig? whatever?) to make required fixes?

Thanks,

BenDJ