From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 09:02:32 EDT
--- Sam Halliday <sam@neutrino.phy.uct.ac.za> wrote:
> > > > They are not supposed to look nicer. This is a
> X11 feature.
> > > well, it seems odd to me that the same fonts
> look nice in all the
> > > rest of my apps... even this mail client,
> sylpheed (which uses gtk+)
> > > has nice looking fonts, the list is endless...
> and i ahev several
> > > WYSIWYG apps for various thigns, and the fonts
> are OK in them...
> > > what makes AbiWord so different?
> > Those Apps make no attempt to print or to be
> WYSIWYG. Your comment of
> > the quality of AbiWord's printed output is exactly
> the point. We only
> > use scalable fonts. We only distribute *FREELY
> distributable* scalable
> > fonts.
>
> no, thats not true... one of the programs i use is
> TeXmacs which is
> WYSIWYG and also XMGrace for graphing (and who is
> going to argue about
> gv?)... these programs use freely distributable
> fonts as well...
These programs draws strings using its own code, not
using core X calls. They render nice glyphs because
they do their own antialising.
If I remember right, the AbiWord fonts are the same as
the gv ones. That's just what you get when you render
them at low resolution and without antialias. (If I
wrong here, please correct me. I don't have here my
computer to check that)
> in fact
> you can just create symbolic links form the
> ghostscript FREE fonts to
> the XMGrace directory and have full control over
> which fonts are
> available to you... which is VERY helpful when you
> try to stick to the
> postscript font availability standards... TeXmacs
> obviously being a
> LaTeX editor has all the TeX fonts available to
> it... also free.
X don't supports Metafonts, so they are out of
discussion.
> don't think i'm bashing abiword here, i think it is
> fantastic and i am
> very impressed by it... i am just very intrigued as
> to why the fonts are
> so different to everything else on my system
every app that you've enumerated does it in a
different way. It's just that (except for TeXmacs)
they don't have to care too much about interactive
speed, and TeXmacs uses a completely different
technology.
>, and
> also why it has to use
> its own fonts and i can't seem to be able to just
> delete the ones in the
> distribution and replace with my own ghostscript
> ones....
Are you not able? What are your problems? I'm able
to use truetype fonts and type 1 fonts here. I
concede that several can go wrong (for instance, if
you have fonts that don't have a lowercase extension),
but it's doable.
I've missed some emails, so if you're already posted a
detailed explanation of your problems I've not seen
it.
Can you give us more details, please?
Btw, all these problems will be fixed asap.
Cheers,
=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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