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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
