--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > no, thats not true... one of the programs i use is > TeXmacs which is > WYSIWYG and also XMGrace for graphing (and who is > going to argue about > gv?)... these programs use freely distributable > fonts as well...
These programs draws strings using its own code, not using core X calls. They render nice glyphs because they do their own antialising. If I remember right, the AbiWord fonts are the same as the gv ones. That's just what you get when you render them at low resolution and without antialias. (If I wrong here, please correct me. I don't have here my computer to check that) > in fact > you can just create symbolic links form the > ghostscript FREE fonts to > the XMGrace directory and have full control over > which fonts are > available to you... which is VERY helpful when you > try to stick to the > postscript font availability standards... TeXmacs > obviously being a > LaTeX editor has all the TeX fonts available to > it... also free. X don't supports Metafonts, so they are out of discussion. > don't think i'm bashing abiword here, i think it is > fantastic and i am > very impressed by it... i am just very intrigued as > to why the fonts are > so different to everything else on my system every app that you've enumerated does it in a different way. It's just that (except for TeXmacs) they don't have to care too much about interactive speed, and TeXmacs uses a completely different technology. >, and > also why it has to use > its own fonts and i can't seem to be able to just > delete the ones in the > distribution and replace with my own ghostscript > ones.... Are you not able? What are your problems? I'm able to use truetype fonts and type 1 fonts here. I concede that several can go wrong (for instance, if you have fonts that don't have a lowercase extension), but it's doable. I've missed some emails, so if you're already posted a detailed explanation of your problems I've not seen it. Can you give us more details, please? Btw, all these problems will be fixed asap. Cheers, ===== Joaquin Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
