>>>>> On 04 Mar 2002 13:33:38 -0600, >>>>> "LC" == Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LC> I've been looking to AbiWord for code, but it doesn't seem to figure out LC> the fonts well. It only has a short list of fonts, regardless of what LC> fonts I have installed. And besides, AbiWord does dump the entire font LC> into the file. Xpdf doesn't, I'd be looking to that for code. I'm not saying we should implement all of font stuff as abiword. LC> If I understand you correctly, there are no Japanese fonts we could expect LC> every Japanese user and printer to have installed. What does AbiWord do? LC> It doesn't seem to do anything special when I run it with LC_ALL=ja_JP LC> (works with da_DK). current abiword has no font file for Japanese, but debian package has it. but that is not my point. ok, please look at this PS file: http://www.gnome.gr.jp/~tagoh/abiword/abiword.ps This file is output by abiword. it's nowhere specified Japanese PS font name. there is just an encrypted font only. LC> I'm mostly thinking of the fonts that are mentioned in the source code LC> itself, them being Courier, Helvetica, Helvetica-Oblique, and LC> Helvetica-BoldOblique. Since we've been assuming everybody and their LC> printers have these, we could reduce the file size by not dumping them (or LC> their equivalents). So I'm saying we can't solve i18n issues with that way. IIRC it seems Chinese printers has no locale-specific font. so that they can't solve this problem with that way. Why can you declare 'everybody'? -- Akira TAGOH : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Japan GNOME Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / GNOME-DB Project : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Red Hat, Inc. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Debian Project _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
