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Many fonts with too long family names can not be used in MS-Word #1566
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This was fixed with the Google page Noto-hinted zip file at ver 2.000, ttfautohint (v1.7) by condensing Condensed to Cond, ExtraLight to ExtLt, etc. This practice should be practised by providing another family of fonts that has shortened name in this repo as the Google Noto page is not updated. |
@KazunariTsuboi : do you still have this issue? |
@marekjez86
Considering the points above, it would be ideal if the font names of the source files, the TTF and OTF files after build are the same.
If the name table of the TTF and OTF files after the build, need to be directly adjusted, I wish if it can be handled in the following process.
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Font
359 files. The families involved are:
The complete list is attached at the end.
Where the font came from, and when
2019/8/1
https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/tree/master/phaseIII_only/hinted/ttf
Font Version
Version 2.001; ttfautohint (v1.8.2)
OS name and version
Windows 10
Application name and version
Microsoft Word 2010
Microsoft Word 2013
Issue
Fonts with a family name that is too long can not be selected on MS-WORD.
The cause is that Name ID 1 is not unique within 31 characters.
For example, typefaces that shorten "Condensed" to "Cond" etc. can be used without problems with MS-WORD.
My ideal is that all font's NameID 1 fits within 31 characters.
If font name ID 1 is 32 characters or more, even if the font can be used, it is not displayed correctly.
The following is a list of all 359 fonts that can not be used.
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