Re: RFP: XP font mapping mechanism

From: phearbear (phearbear@home.se)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 10:32:48 EDT

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    Jody Goldberg wrote:

    >On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:29:46PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Hi,
    >>
    >>So my latest build doc brought up some confusion on IRC about what the
    >>"Luxi Sans" font was, and is an example of a much larger problem - we
    >>have no good font name mapping solution in place, so necessarily some
    >>font information gets lost when a document moves from one machine to
    >>another (and especially across platforms), and is parallel to the font
    >>embedding problem that Joaquin and I were discussing last month.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Before solving this in abi-code there are a few things to think about
    >
    >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.
    >
    >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.
    >
    >3) A very similar problem arises when printing. So we should
    > explore how that is handled.
    >
    >At GUADEC 3 Keith's talk and some questions afterward suggested that
    >this was exactly what fontconfig was targeted at. However, I did
    >not think to ask about its cross platform status.
    >
    >
    QNX/Photon does this already, it has a FontConfig dialog, where you can
    edit font mappings.

    >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.
    >
    >
    >
    >

    /Johan



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