On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:31:35 +0200 (CEST), Tore Engvig wrote:
>I'm not sure that you always can assume that java fonts are the same as
>your system fonts, and I don't think you should map Arial to Helvetica. If
>I remember correctly, Helvetica is a nice font, but Arial looks more
>like... ugly.
Randall,
Maybe we need to have something similar to this class in batik:
org.apache.batik.gvt.font.FontFamilyResolver
Going a bit further we could make it an option to be able to use any font
that java can load (ie. reading the font metrics).
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:09:12 Randall Parker wrote:
Here's the problem in a nutshell: Java's Font class knows about the True Type fonts
that it loaded from jre\lib
\fonts and it also seems to know about TrueType fonts that are in the operating
system's directory of fonts (on
my NT4 box they are in winnt\fonts). But those font names are not going
