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  1. Bug #93155
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 93155

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Ze Mane (zemane) wrote : Re: No Dejavu Sans Condensed font in KDE Feisty Fawn

This is SO ANNOYING, even if it is to comply to some new fontconfig rules!
I want my DejaVu Condensed fonts back! In all applications!

I recently installed openSUSE 10.3 and now all my OpenOffice documents are wrong! The most recent version of DejaVu that shows the Condensed fonts in OO is version 2.8. I got it at http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Old_Downloads
The latest version can be downloaded from http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download

I looked into a Gnome application to see how to it now displays the new fonts. I opened gnome-appearance-properties, selected the Fonts tab, and clicked on the Application Font button to see how it would show the DejaVu fonts. It is terrible, there is now 9 styles to choose just in the DejaVu Sans family, plus 8 in the DejaVu Serif family. The Mono family still shows 4 styles. You can see the screnshot I took below.

I prefer the old stile, where styles were better organized by providing a Condensed family. This also allows for faster selection of the fonts because I know by reading its name that it is a Condensed font.

Please someone, have a nice solution to this problem, as soon as possible!!

Thanks.