On or about 6/2/2005 6:01 AM, Rich penned the following: > well, it seems that's what is going to happen in near future (for > example, a problem with fontwork object was not pursued as it is > supposed to be dropped) > > Fred A. Miller wrote: > >> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 1:30 am, Rich wrote: >> >>> actually fontwork seems to be of reduced functionality in 2.0... >>> >>> to increase compatibility with msword, fontwork gallery was introduced >>> that allows 16 presets. "old" fontwork allowed to stick text to any >>> arbitraly shaped figure (try drawing a crazy line and add fontwork >>> object to it. that's flexibility :):) ) >>> >>> it also seems that current fontwork behaviour will be dropped in future >>> (as some devs commented that it is going to be unsupported, so probably >>> removed shortly afterwards, too) >>> >>> i just hope that we can get it back someday - you could do a lot of >>> things with it easily that simply can't be done with fontwork gallery. >>> >>> or maybe when word will be forced to minority market share. >> >> >> It would be a very ignorant decision, IMHO, to not continue to support >> Fontwork!! >> >> Fred
Hopefully whatever replaces the existing fontwork will be much, much, easier to use. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
