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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Fonts and printing
From:       Keith Antoine <kantoine () eastwind ! com ! au>
Date:       2000-02-24 0:53:48
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Donovan Rebbechi wrote:

> Hi. I have used Koffice, and by and large, I am very impressed. However,
> what did not impress me so much was the way fonts and printing are
> handled.
>
> It seems that Koffice tries to guess the name of printer fonts
> from the X fonts, and often it guesses wrongly. What other office suites
> do is use their own way to map screen fonts to outline files and/or
> metrics. I am interested to hear if the koffice people have any kind of
> font management / font database system planned to take care of
> print/screen font mapping issues.

Yes that interests me too, especially as the immenent release of Xfree 4.0
with a whole new swathe of fonts i.e TrueType, and font engine.

Keith Antoine
Australia
Sorry no sig file am in win: reinstalling Caldera

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