[ft-devel] Problem sniffing font weight/width

[Deron Kazmaier]

Hi,

This is probably not a freetype problem, but maybe someone here can 
point me in a direction that helps. I have a couple of fonts in which 
the OS2 structure contains bogus weights. For example, a (Mac) 
Helvetica.dfont that the Helvetica Bold font weight is the same as the 
Regular weight, but the Bold Italic weight is (correctly) larger. The 
Helvetica font with 10.4 is correct, but the 10.5 is version is hosed. 
The LinotypeUnivers font I have is even worse. It has a couple dozen 
weights, widths, plus italics and probably 2/3 report wrong widths and 
weights.

I am assuming that there must be some Mac resource or?? that is 
correctly identifying the weights, or Mac apps would not work with these 
fonts. Sadly, I expect this from free fonts, but these are anything but!

Thanks for any ideas. Right now I am getting around this by examining 
the style name.

Deron Kazmaier