Jody Goldberg wrote: >On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:29:46PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>So my latest build doc brought up some confusion on IRC about what the >>"Luxi Sans" font was, and is an example of a much larger problem - we >>have no good font name mapping solution in place, so necessarily some >>font information gets lost when a document moves from one machine to >>another (and especially across platforms), and is parallel to the font >>embedding problem that Joaquin and I were discussing last month. >> >> > >Before solving this in abi-code there are a few things to think about > >1) This should be solved in a more general location so that the > configuration can be shared by other document-centric apps. > I don't know where this would live. However, it is definitely > something that the user should be able to configure once for all > office apps. > >2) It may actually already be solved on the unix side via keith > Packard's 'fontconfig' package that is used by default in > gtk-2.1 (pango HEAD). How well this would work on other > platforms is unclear. > >3) A very similar problem arises when printing. So we should > explore how that is handled. > >At GUADEC 3 Keith's talk and some questions afterward suggested that >this was exactly what fontconfig was targeted at. However, I did >not think to ask about its cross platform status. > > QNX/Photon does this already, it has a FontConfig dialog, where you can edit font mappings.
>In gnumeric I've specificly avoided doing a real solution to wait >for this. However, you can at least avoid losing informat by >storing both the requested font and the display font. So that on >export you can dump the original. > > > > /Johan
