From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 03:42:01 EDT
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Sam Halliday 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.
>
> i just tried the FAQ for installing true type fonts, but i get an error
> that the font cour.afm doesnt exist... i guess i'll just leave it as an
> out-of-the-box install. how long is it predicted before full support for
> the adobe font pack (well, the ghostscript PS fonts) is included?
Read this list for a week and form your own opinion. It is being hacked on
and debated right now.
Cheers
Martin
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