Re: Why generic names like "Sans" & "Serif"?
On Sunday 18 May 2008 04:58:20 am Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
They're not a simple alias, they can be a patchwork of fonts, and
the
composition of the patchwork for the same rules depends on the actual
font files present on disk.
Thanks Nicolas for the help and links. One last question related to this... I
asked this question on the fedora-list a couple of months ago but there
wasn't a straight answer (I guess it's not possible) but I ask it here to see
if any of you know a way.
Is there a way to know the final rendered font when viewing a page on Firefox?
I installed the "Font Finder" extension and basically I'll highlight some
text and it will give me the requested font for that section. Something like:
verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif
Can I assume that the final rendered font (in Firefox) is the same I'll get
when I do:
fc-match verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif
??? It seems to be that way (having "sans-serif" for sans-serif on my Firefox
preferences...) but if I specify a particular typeface for "sans-serif" in
Firefox...it will not evaluate 'verdana, arial & helvetica"and it will jump
straight to the specific font I specified in "sans-serif".
Thanks,
Jorge