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C2019-022 Removed the use of the Arial Unicode font (was in for backward compatibility) when using symbols with a proportional font. We now use FreeSerif (supplied by Volian)

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C2019-022 When pre-processing table cells before we print a table, we now replace any Arial Unicode font reference with FreeSerif.
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John Jenko
2019-05-16 16:48:55 +00:00
parent 70fbe75672
commit 0ba08ae64d
2 changed files with 20 additions and 8 deletions
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PROMS/Volian.Base.Library/vlnFont.cs
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@@ -20,9 +20,13 @@ namespace Volian.Base.Library
get {
if (_ProportionalSymbolFont == null)
{
if (FindFontFamily("Arial Unicode MS"))
_ProportionalSymbolFont = "Arial Unicode MS"; // microsoft no longer supplies this font as of Word16
else if (FindFontFamily("FreeSerif"))
// C2019-022 Microsoft no longer supplies the Arial Unicode font. New computers more than likely do not have this font
// Since this font is no longer supported, we will now use FreeSerif or FreeMono for symbol characters
// when using a proportional font.
// We removed even checking if Arial Unicode was installed because we had a case (at Volian) where the font
// existed (was installed on a Windows 10 computer) but so some reason (unknown at time of writing) Windows say it was bad.
// PROMS would will try to use it when printing resulting in very slow print speed and often an un-readable PDF file.
if (FindFontFamily("FreeSerif"))
_ProportionalSymbolFont = "FreeSerif"; // volian supplied font but regular chars look like Times Roman
else if (FindFontFamily("FreeMono"))
_ProportionalSymbolFont = "FreeMono"; // volian suppllied font but regular chars are fixed spaced and look like Courier
@@ -49,11 +53,11 @@ namespace Volian.Base.Library
get {
if (_ReportsFont == null)
{
if (FindFontFamily("Arial Unicode MS")) // microsoft no longer supplies this font as of Word16
_ReportsFont = "Arial Unicode MS";
else if (FindFontFamily("Meiryo")) // is a Japanise font (standard windows font) but cannot be used along with the Arial font - will shift text up half a character when mixing the two fonts.
_ReportsFont = "Meiryo";
else if (FindFontFamily("FreeSerif")) // volian supplied font but regular chars look like Times Roman
// C2019-022 Microsoft no longer supplies the Arial Unicode font. New computers more than likely do not have this font
// Since this font is no longer supported, we will now use FreeSerif or FreeMono for symbol characters
// when using a proportional font.
// Also the Meiryo font will not be used as it cannot be used along with the Arial font.
if (FindFontFamily("FreeSerif")) // volian supplied font but regular chars look like Times Roman
_ReportsFont = "FreeSerif";
else if (FindFontFamily("FreeMono")) // volian suppllied font but regular chars are fixed spaced and look like Courier
_ReportsFont = "FreeMono";