On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:35:33 -0600 Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/4/05 6:07 PM, "Garrett R. Hylltun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > What's the deal on the fonts that we can use in our programs; > > > > are we limited to what's in the text formatting list? > > can we add our own fonts? > > - If yes, how and what font format? > > antialias support? > > Basically we are limited to whatever fonts are currently installed on the > machine that is running our programs, since Revolution does not (at this > time) support font embedding... this means that if you want to have a > specific font in use in your program, you will need to confirm that the user > has it installed (check 'the fontnames' property), or install it yourself > (assuming that it is OK for you to do so) as part of your overall > installation process. Maybe a bug or not, most of the fonts I have installed are not showing up in Rev, and the fonts that show in Rev, some I don't even have installed on my system. > As to antialiasing, Revolution doesn't do anything about this - the OSes > themselves implement font smoothing at certain point sizes or larger, and > this is reflected in Rev as much as in Word... I may have a bug that is or isn't related to Rev then. Antialiasing works fine on my system (Ubuntu Linux 5.10 with Gnome 2.12.1) with every program I have run on it, with the exception of programs that run in their own VM such as XBasic. Should I submit these issues to Runtime? On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:00:35 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Garrett, > Also remember that all fonts are not available on all platforms. For > example, you could do your layout on a Mac with Geneva, but this > typeface is Mac only. You may also find that some typefaces that are Do Mac OS and OSX have TTF support? [snip] > Also, if you are using non-proportional fonts, let us know there are > some issues there as well. > Paul Looney What are the issues related to non-proportional fonts? Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
