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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Qt PostScript font names
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-08-20 7:57:06
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Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Sent a copy to the trolls (qt-bugs@trolltech.com) or (on your risk) cc:Lars 
> Knoll directly. They are the experts on qt libs and should be interested in 
> this. Though, as Lars Knoll told, they seem to have put their efforts onto 
> some other things. But perhaps your help really helps them... :)
> 
> Friedrich
> 
> PS: Don't turn sad if there are no reactions regarding to fonts. It looks like 
> most people are not very interested in this or have no idea (me too). 
> Otherwise there would be a kde-fonts ml ;) Maybe most already arrived in the 
> paper-less office ;) Or are not in touch with DTP or the like.

This doesn't seem to be a pressing issue does it.

I sent the demo patch to TrolTech and did receive a personal acknowledgment 
in addition to the auto reply.

Lars doesn't seem to think that this it is possible to do this easily. 
And, he is correct about part of it.  But, if you can embed the font -- you 
can get access to the font file -- you can also get the PostScript font 
name correct even if you don't embed the font.  I don't expect that this 
will work on an old outdated system, but you can't expect KDE to run well 
(or at all) on such a system can you?

At David Faure's suggestion, I cleaned this up a little -- I figured out a 
little bit of how to write C++ code (the first patch was only C code) -- 
and the attached is good enough to consider a Beta patch with the WARNING 
that it will probably only work if you have a very new version of XFree86, 
FreeType2, Xft, & FontConfig, which I would hope is true of all serious KDE 
types.  It would be an Alpha patch on older systems.

I also found an additional bug -- it still lists the WRONG name as one of 
the options.  This is a bug, but it should call no harm since there is no 
font for that wrong name. :-|

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JRT

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