Le Fri, May 11, 2001, � 07:47:28PM +0900, Richard Sharpe a �crit:
> However, Dia shows me a very restricted list of fonts, it seems, when I
> insert text.
>
> How can I get Dia to show me them all, like Verdana, etc.
This has been intentionally restricted. The short reason why, is that it's
quite difficult to match the fonts available under X and the fonts
available for printing. Portability of documents could be cited as another
reason, since it would also be difficult to retrieve the font file, embed it
into a dia file, and deliver the result on another machine while loading the
diagram, to display or print it.
This will probably last, until the usual chaos about fonts under X/PS-using
desktops gets cleared, preferably with a solution which doesn't displease
too many people...
(once *that* is done, there will necessarily be some modifications to do to
dia to take advantage of this, but compared with the unified font system
itself, it'll probably be a snap to do).
-- Cyrille.
--
Grumpf.
