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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Fwd: Re: Fwd: Font Installer KControl Module
From:       Thomas Diehl <thd () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-04-23 17:19:39
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Font Installer KControl Module
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:47:41 +0100
From: Craig Drummond <cpdrummond@freeuk.com>
To: kde-core-devel@master.kde.org
Cc: torsten@kde.org, thd@kde.org


Hi,

> On Monday 23 April 2001 13:49, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > > I'm planning on creating a KControl module for installing
> > > fonts(TrueType, Type1, Speedo, and Bitmap), and for
> > > configuring Ghostscript (and StarOffice) to use these.
> >
> > Great! We really need something like this!
> >
> > > This new GUI is based on some Adobe Type Manager screenshots
> > > that were emailed to me.
> > >
> > > Please have a look at http://www.cpdrummond.uklinux.net/kfontinst-new

> > > and let me know what you think of my idea.
>
> In the previous mail I only talked about possible improvements
> to the Fonts-Tab.
>
> Looking at the Settings-Tab I think that one could remove the
> Preview-String-Group-Box by providing the solution which most
> Apps use today: Most Font-Previews (hey it even works in Gimp like that :-)

> can be edited in a lineedit so that one can select each Character/string etc.

> and replace it by any Preview-String the user would like to have.

The problem with this is that I use either FreeType, or t1lib to
produce the preview string - as I want it to work for fonts that aren't
yet installed (so the user can see what they look like without
installing). And the code for this preview is very simple - I don't
really ant to overcomplicate it.

> Greetings,
> Tackat

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