On Monday 08 April 2002 08:21, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:

> > Bryce's patch doesn't completely solve the problem. This sort of
> > situation is still possible:
> > (1) User doesn't have arial installed on their system.
> > (2) AbiWord puts the (fake) Arial in the font path on startup.
> > (3) User (for example) loads up a webpage in konqueror that uses Arial.
> > Before, konqueror will fall back on Helvectica (which looks decent) but
> > now it will use the Arial that is installed on the font path (which looks
> > bad).
>
> I don't understand.  The first step of my proposed solution is to remove
> the fonts that are added under false names.  AbiWord would do font mapping
> internally, rather than externally.  No other application would ever see a
> false "Arial".

I was referring to your (already applied) patch which adds the prefix zz to 
all abiword fonts. Do you have a patch which does internal 
font-remapping/substitution on Unix? Without this, simply renaming the 
AbiWord fonts would cripple the AbiWord's functionality (all fonts would map 
to 'times').

Just trying to bring this discussion up to a higher level,

Will Lachance
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