--- Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 19:43, Mark Gilbert wrote: > > Just open a dialog "Unable to locate font XYZ, > defaulting to times new > > roman" and leave it simple. > > ok, but after the dialog box, what should I do, > "hard" substitution or > "only visual" substitution? > > I'm personally tempted by a "hard" substitution
No no. You should definitely only do a visual substitution. I should be able to create a document with Arial fonts for Windows users even when I'm on a machine that doesn't have them. I especially should be able to edit such a doc created on a Windows machine, and save my changes without having changed the font in the document. If the user chooses two fonts which look alike, that is really their problem. For church secretaries it probably won't matter, for more technical users, they should be capable of adding text to a document in its existing fonts without having to do a "visual match". It would be possible to warn the user if they are beginning to use, save, or load a document which uses more than one "alias" to the same visual font. But I doubt that other WPs do this or have to, it should be optional if it's there at all. We could possibly make it part of a future "show codes" option. Styles may help prevent the forseen problems from ocurring in the first place. Andrew Dunbar. > Cheers, > > -- > Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
