On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, James Henstridge wrote:
> Font handling under X sucks. There is no easy way to go from an X font
> name to the type1 outline font (and it may not even be a Type1 font,
> so might be unusable from postscript).
>
> That is why dia limits you to the standard postscript fonts. You can set
> up your X server so that it provides the URW fonts under the adobe
> names. There is a question in the FAQ on the website about it.
Does Gnome have better font handling? Or is there some other font-handling
library around we could use? Eventually, something will have to be done
about this -- my (now former) officemate couldn't use Dia because the font
handling was so bad. Bad fonts really hurt Dia.
-Lars
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