And here a summary of the discussion in this thread so far.

Main issue is 'font sizes'. The FontImporterTool just generates a few
text styles with particular font sizes and I do not easily know where
these are defined.


Importing vs Installing
------------------------

Import embeds the font data in the image,
install creates a "reference" font to the font file on disk


Font sizes
-----------

Marcel asked:

Would it be difficult to let the user decide/override which font sizes to
import?

Answer of Tobias:

To quote TTCFont class >> #pointSizes

        "The default sizes that are created when a TextStyle is
created.  You can add new sizes by the new-size feature."
        ^ #(9 12 15 24 36).

So, it is possible to change the point size of a TTCFont internally
and TextStyles also support this somewhat, but actually _adding_ a point
size takes code; after import/install you could do

        ((TextStyle named: 'Gill Sans') addNewFontSize: 8)

but there's no UI.


Using TextStyles
----------------

> Why should I use TextStyle if I want to program with or access fonts? I
> always use StrikeFont... :-)


Because that is what the user sees when she hits ctrl-K for the
font menu…

I used this TextStyle thingy because it is there and I don't need
no additional registry again :D



On 4/10/17, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adding a note to this very welcome tool added 2 years ago:
>
> The FontImporterTool (=class name, available through the 'Apps' menu)
> gives me the result which is attached on Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> Direct fix for Ubuntu
> -----------------------------
>
> The FontImporterTool
>
> uses
>
>     TTFileDescription fontPathsDo: aBlock
>
> to find out where to look for TrueType fonts.
>
> For the case of Ubuntu 14.04 this only works if I replace there
>
>     ['unix']		->	[ | base |
> 			"Standard fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/*"
> 			base := '/usr/share/fonts'.
>
> with
>
>     ['unix']		->	[ | base |
> 			"Standard fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/*"
> 			base := '/usr/share/fonts/truetype'.
>
>
> How could we fix this in a more general way?
>
> --Hannes
>
>
>
> On 3/19/15, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19.03.2015, at 14:58, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19.03.2015, at 13:06, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19.03.2015, at 11:54, Marcel Taeumel
>>>> <marcel.taeumel at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Would it be difficult to let the user decide/override which font sizes
>>>>> to
>>>>> import?
>>>>
>>>> Yeno :D
>>>> To quote TTCFont class >> #pointSizes
>>>>
>>>> 	"The default sizes that are created when a TextStyle is created.  You
>>>> can add new sizes by the new-size feature."
>>>> 	^ #(9 12 15 24 36).
>>>>
>>>> So, it is possible to change the point size of a TTCFont internally
>>>> and TextStyles also support this somewhat, but actually _adding_ a
>>>> point
>>>> size takes code; after import/install you could do
>>>>
>>>> 	((TextStyle named: 'Gill Sans') addNewFontSize: 8)
>>>>
>>>> but there's no UI.
>>>
>>> There used to be UI. We lost it when the font menu was replaced with the
>>> font dialog.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>
>>
>