Roboto fonts not usable in Microsoft Windows enviroment about roboto HOT 12 CLOSED

More specifically, this is an issue with the name table.

There are 2 places that the family name and style name are present in the name table:

• ID 1, 2: family and style name for compatibility with environments such as Windows that only allow four base styles per family.
• ID 16, 17: family and style name for environments that support additional styles.

For any fonts outside of the base 4 styles (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), record 1 should include the weight name (e.g., "Roboto Thin"), while record 2 should only contain "Regular" or "Italic". Records 16 and 17 can be left as-is.

This has been corrected in the files at https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache/roboto, but that fix doesn't seem to have made it to this repository yet.

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Thanks codeman,
sadly I still have the issue that the regular italic isn't recognized by windows. :/

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This still isn't fixed in the binary deliveries as of 2015/08/20 (545be2d). Were the binaries generated using the code from #51?

I wrote a Python script a while back which uses fonttools to fix the name tables in the binaries as specified above, and it still appears to work on the latest deliveries: https://gist.github.com/codeman38/9d77f650a875639a55e6

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Unfortunately no, the binaries present in the repository are not generated by the latest scripts. So yea, the choices are basically to either hotfix the existing binaries as you've done, or generate new fonts from the toolchain yourself (which should be functionally identical to the existing binaries, but the fact that we aren't yet fully confident of this is why this discrepancy exists).

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This should be fixed (finally!) in the latest release: https://github.com/google/roboto/releases

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The version was 2.132......Roboto Regular problem is still not fixed..

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I'm unable to reproduce this issue on Windows 8.1 with the fonts in roboto-hinted.zip from the latest release. Could you give some details about where you're seeing a problem?

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A client of mine has started using Roboto in Microsoft Office on Windows machines, and are having problems with the way the font is rendering on screen. The font is displaying very poorly and is nearly impossible to read without zooming in quite a ways. Has anyone encountered this issue? Client sent me this screen shot showing the different between how Roboto displays vs Arial.

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@czuboka my first impression is that this looks like unhinted Roboto. Could you first make sure that your client is using the hinted version of Roboto? Thanks.

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@jamesgk can you provide me a link to the latest version with hinting so I can be sure I am sending my client the best solution. There are a lot of variations floating around. Thanks!

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The latest version of Roboto can be found at https://github.com/google/roboto/releases; the current version with hinting is https://github.com/google/roboto/releases/download/v2.134/roboto-hinted.zip.

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