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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chromium should support bitmap fonts (for Atom, VS code, etc.)

Reported by broken.z...@gmail.com, Mar 26 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0

Example URL:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Webpage:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>

<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        body {
            font-family: "xos4 Terminus", "Terminus";
        }
    </style>
    Hello world
</head>

<body>
</body>

</html>

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Firefox shows correct font.  Chromium doesn't.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 57.0.2987.110 (Developer Build) (64-bit)  Channel: dev
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

Although bitmap is rarely used on website, it is still popular among programming community.  Supporting bitmap font is an important feature for Electron-based editors such as Atom and VS code.
 
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Comment 1 by tkent@chromium.org, Mar 26 2017

Components: -Blink Blink>Fonts
Labels: Needs-Triage-M57

Comment 3 by e...@chromium.org, Mar 27 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
We have no intention of adding support for bitmap fonts as they scale terribly and doesn't work across the full spectrum of devices and screens that are commonly used. Even on desktop bitmap fonts are no longer a good option as most new devices have hidpi screens.

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