From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 19:18:39 EDT
Hi Jody,
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 07:08 PM, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> 1) This should be solved in a more general location so that the
> configuration can be shared by other document-centric apps.
> I don't know where this would live. However, it is definitely
> something that the user should be able to configure once for all
> office apps.
Agreed. Anything document-centric could certainly use this sort of
logic.
> 2) It may actually already be solved on the unix side via keith
> Packard's 'fontconfig' package that is used by default in
> gtk-2.1 (pango HEAD). How well this would work on other
> platforms is unclear.
Yes, this may be the case and I had given some thought to it. However,
when a user on windows tries to load my document and has no Luxi Sans
font, this is unfortunate. I can't ask that windows user to install
fontconfig.
> 3) A very similar problem arises when printing. So we should
> explore how that is handled.
To some large degree, this concept would be directly transferrable to
printing. On windows, the screen and printing stuff has a 1:1
correspondence. On Unix, fontconfig is capable of providing you with
font metric data and the like. Our current PS driver grabs this info
when printing. Something like that needs to be shoved into GnomePrint,
though, if this has not already happened.
> In gnumeric I've specificly avoided doing a real solution to wait
> for this. However, you can at least avoid losing informat by
> storing both the requested font and the display font. So that on
> export you can dump the original.
Yup. I'll await Keith's advice.
Dom
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