Super Minor: outline print font default

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iandol

15 Dec, 2016 09:38 AM

Hi, this is super minor, but by default the first font alphabetically in the font list is selected in the print settings for outlines. In this case the Arabic font "Al Bayan", which although it has english characters has some weird issues with punctuation in Western scripts. Perhaps Helvetica would be a safer bet as default?

  1. 1 Posted by keith on 15 Dec, 2016 03:46 PM

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    Fixed. The problem was that it was actually set to use the default outline font when you first opened the panel, but the outline uses the system font, and since 10.10 (or 10.11, I can't remember which), Apple hasn't made the system font (San Francisco) available as a public font. So this means that it's not available in the menu and so cannot be selected, leaving the first item selected. I've changed it to default to Helvetica if the passed-in font cannot be selected.

  2. keith closed this discussion on 15 Dec, 2016 03:46 PM.

  3. iandol re-opened this discussion on 15 Dec, 2016 03:59 PM

  4. 2 Posted by iandol on 15 Dec, 2016 03:59 PM

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    Thanks Keith, by the way I do appreciate your little summaries of what the issue was and what you had to work round :-)

  5. iandol closed this discussion on 15 Dec, 2016 03:59 PM.

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