I am getting only Playfair Micro SmCond SmLight and nothing else

[jozsefk9]

Is this a normal behavior on Linux, to get only that one variety of Playfair font (Playfair Micro SmCond SmLight)?

I downloaded "Playfair_2_2_fonts.zip", extracted it to "~/.fonts" just like I do with all other fonts.

[clauseggers]

I have no idea what constitutes normality on ‘Linux’. Playfair is a variable font with some predefined instances. Looks like your software has elected to just display one of them.

[kenmcd]

LibreOffice uses the STAT table.
And the STAT table in v2.200 is still completely messed-up.
I tested yesterday in Samsa - which still shows problems - and then tested in LibreOffice which also shows the problems.

There are also problems with the named instances.
I figured once the GF folks get involved this stuff will get fixed.

[clauseggers]

I’ll put @schriftgestalt and @mekkablue on this.
The GF folks will only fix the fonts they generate. There is no traffic from them to me.
The Glyphs people will have to take a look at this.

@kenmcd What are the particular issues?

[RGB-es]

The problem is not Linux, but LibreOffice: variable fonts are unusable there. See this bug report

Bug 152396 - Font width (expanded, condensed, etc.) is not supported

Recent versions of LuaTeX offer good support for variable fonts.

[clauseggers]

I had a hunch this was the case. The fonts in Samsa looks fine – at least I couldn’t see anything amiss.
Whether the STAT table is indeed malformed @schriftgestalt is looking into. He will report back if there are indeed issues.

I hope @kenmcd will posts the specific STAT table issues soon.

[kenmcd]

The problem is not Linux, but LibreOffice: variable fonts are unusable there. See this bug report

Bug 152396 - Font width (expanded, condensed, etc.) is not supported

Recent versions of LuaTeX offer good support for variable fonts.

That is an old report.
I have tested current versions of LibreOffice (v24.8.3.1) with the current versions of Junicode (v2.209) - and created documents which display all pre-defined instances - and it works fine.

Here is an image of an earlier test with Junicode v2.208 from LibreOffice.

Looks the same with v2.209.
And the correct fonts get embedded in the Export to PDF.
That will not happen with this current Playfair v2.200 (I tested it).
I doubt it is even possible to create a working test document which correctly displays all the named instances (such as above), or export to PDF correctly.