Just open a dialog "Unable to locate font XYZ, defaulting to times new roman" and leave it simple.
-MG On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 13:25, Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela wrote: > I don't know how to implement a font substitution algorithm that makes > sense. The problem: > > fonts used in windows are not usually available on others systems. When > you try to open on linux an abiword file that comes from windows, it > will have "Times New Roman", "Arial", etc fonts, but the linux guy > doesn't has these fonts. > > If we substitute these fonts for something else, we have to indicate it > in the GUI, ie. if we change Arial for Helvetica, we have to show in the > font family combo box the Helvetica name (as this is the font the > abiword is using to display the text). > > This substitution should be a "only visual" one (only the string in the > GUI is affected, but the doc is still saved with "Arial"), or a "hard" > one (the file is saved with "Helvetica"). > > If the substitution is "hard", what if the user makes a silly change, > saves the doc, and send it back to the windows user? The windows user > will open it, and abiword will have to do another substitution from > "Helvetica" to something else (supposing that the substituted font will > be "Arial" is wrong, the windows user may very well have Helvetica > installed). > > If the substitution is "only visual", say that the linux user adds a new > paragraph in "Helvetica", it will be saved in the doc as a "Helvetica" > paragraph, while the others paragraphs will be still "Arial" (and the > GUI is saying that all them have exactly the same font). That's a real > problem. Say a peer makes half an assignment in windows, using "Times > New Roman", and that I finish it in my linux computer, using "Nimbus > Roman" (that, AFAICS is the same font used by my windows peer). I send > back him the assignment, and... surprise! half the assignment uses a > font, and the other half uses a different font. That's not good. > > Anybody knows what should I do to solve this problem? > > Cheers, > > -- > Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- AbiWord Weekly News - Just $3 (USD) per quarter for your weekly news fix - http://www.abisource.com/information/news/
