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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    How should MsWord font names be translated to X?
From:       shaheed <srhaque () iee ! org>
Date:       2001-04-09 1:09:17
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KWord's MsWord filter needs to be able to convert Ms font names to something 
plausible in X terms.

Based on some IRC input (mostly from KrazyKiwi - thanks Laurie!), I have 
hacked up a function in:

koffice/filters/olefilters/winword97/document.cc::getFont

If anyone has suggestions, I would be pleased to see them. Note that it is 
also desireable that this function can handle Mac->X mappings as well as 
Windows->X mappings since MsWord exists on the Mac platform.

FWIW, I would prefer algorithms, or lookup tables rather than pointers to Web 
sites as I have neither the expertise nor the time to do much research on 
this!

Some notes:

1. The MsWord filter knows (approximately, at least) if the document comes 
from a Mac.

2. This http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/pages/font_face.html has some 
info on Mac-PC mapping.

3. The MsWord filter won't yet do sensible things with the font name returned 
by the above functions - but I expect this to change "Real Soon Now".

4. Please keep replies to koffice-devel@master.kde.org
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