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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Font size, display, print , zoom
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home () cobol2java ! com>
Date:       2001-04-15 17:51:20
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Now that is a problematic point - in terms of the various Linux 
distributions..

1. You don't know if the end user have XFree 4.x or XFree 3.3.x, or maybe 
other commercial X servers - and what font server (if they're using font 
server) they're using, and if they're using XFree 4 built in true type 
support...

2. The conversion problem - Redhat got their ttmkfntdit and they use modified 
XFS server - their script sucks because it extract only some of the Unicode 
fonts from Windows fonts or from the Corel Draw CD, others - you don't know 
if you have anything to convert TTF fonts to standard fonts.dir, 
fonts.encoding etc...

3. What about *BSD, Sun, HP/UX, SGI, AIX etc? do you want to ignore them?

This font thing is indeed could be one of the major winning point of getting 
the end-user to use it. None of the 'other' desktop enviroments or Window 
managers does that (actually - not even Windows - the installer have the 
responsibilities to install fonts). Mandrake however - got this part taken 
care of, so it could be taken from there, slap a new GUI and use it...

Thanks,
Hetz


On Sunday 15 April 2001 13:41, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:54:23 +0200, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> >We need a font installer!
>
> FWIW, I also think this might be the biggest remaining problem in KDE
> for ordinary Windows users. These people simply do not understand why
> there's no Control Center module for installing / administrating all
> those great TrueType and Type1 fonts they got on their Corel DRAW CDs,
> Shareware floppies and Windows partitions. They just cannot be expected
> to get into the intricacies of X11 font handling.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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