[kfontview] [Bug 470422] New: Cannot view Roboto fonts

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470422

            Bug ID: 470422
           Summary: Cannot view Roboto fonts
    Classification: Applications
           Product: kfontview
           Version: 5.26.1
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: sunspark at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

The Roboto fonts (all families) from Google are truetype files that are not
able to be opened or viewed by kfontview or KDE font management.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Grab a Roboto font (any), in this example, you could get the family by
clicking download family in the upper right at
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto
2. Extract the archive
3. Using font management in KDE settings try to install from a file OR just
double-click on one of the TTFs to try and open font viewer.

OBSERVED RESULT

font viewer -> "Could not read font."
font management -> "fontfilename is not a font."

EXPECTED RESULT

To be displayed and/or installed.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)

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