From koffice-devel Tue Jul 23 06:22:10 2002 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:22:10 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: [office_standards] Re: WYSIWYG and a common document file format X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=102749904704674 Hi, Martin! On Monday 22 July 2002 11:23 pm, Martin Konold wrote: | On Monday 22 July 2002 05:56 pm, Vadim Plessky wrote: | | Hi, | | > Think of AFM files which are coming together with PS fonts. | > | > You can store those AFM's, or some part of it, in office document. | > Let's suggest you usee Verdana for layout, and stored Verdana metrics. | > Than there is another system, which has Arial font, but not Verdana. | > In many aspects, Verdana and Arial are similar (same wiight, San-Serif | > fonts), so advanced layout engine can take *Arial* glyphs, and layout | > them using *Verdana* metrics. | | Do you think this is worth the complexity? Why not expect that if someone | wants to have exact the same layout to also use exact the same font. Not all fonts are freely distributable. To say more: most fonts are *not distributable* So, you need toi purchase a license for some fonts if someone used it in his document, sent this document to you and you want to prevent losses from layout. | | IMHO a lot of the uglyness of X11 is due to these imperfect "font | replacement" techniques. I am not aware about "uglyness of X11", in this context. Please explain! XFree86 provides rather flexible font handling mechanism via Xft [1]. Upcoming Xft2 [2] will provide more flexible mechanism for font configuration on X. At a moment, font selection/layout is done in: * Qt/KDE - for KDE apps * Pango - GNOME2 Both of them provide good support for font selection, including non-Latin languages David Turner, of FreeType project, was planning to write FT Layout library, which could serve all apps mentioned above (GNOME, KDE) plus OpenOffice/StarOffice and Mozilla/Netscape. Than all major Linux apps can have unified layout mechanism. So far, this library is not ready, and most apps do font handling on its own. [1] http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/ [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/fonts@xfree86.org/msg00701.html [3] http://freetype.sourceforge.net/ftlayout/index.html | | Yours, | --martin Cheers, -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel