On Fri, 11 May 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, May 11, 2001, à 07:47:28PM +0900, Richard Sharpe a écrit:
>
>> 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).
I disagree on this; I think we should get some better font support soon,
even if it means that some documents will use replacement fonts when moved
between machines. PostScript output can just have the font embedded.
The problem of different font installations on different machines will not
get fixed until there is some kind of font-server available for all that
allows the document to specify and download fonts, and I don't see that
happening any time soon. So if we can deal with the PostScript problems,
we should be able to use whatever fonts are installed. We could even mark
the fonts that are not PostScript compatible until such time as we can
embed fonts into PostScript.
-Lars
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