On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002, � 01:45:03PM -0600, Lars Clausen a �crit: > >> In a later version, we could have the user setup what fonts should be >> assumed available, so those with localized printers can make use of >> that. It would be nice to be able to ask the printer what fonts it has >> available... > > Nooo, please nooooo !!! > > This leads towards unportable PS and PDF. For what ?? 0.7 second less > time for the first sheet of paper ?
Yah, that's probably not worth the trouble. Wouldn't want to code it either, much better stuff to do. > Please. Not this. Let's stick to the portable set of fonts only (high-end > printers or software rasterisers will some sort of caching anyway). > > Translators have no business knowing about font names; we have to do this > for the moment, but it's an ugly kludge. Well, I noticed that some font names are in _() already. Without such translation, how can we fixed strings in objects be translated and displayed correctly? -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
