Subject: RE: Commit: Re: notes on smart quote implementation (fwd)
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 10:37:09 CDT
At 9:25 AM -0400 8/24/00, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>I'm just concerned about 1 thing: I write an Abi document on
>Linux/Gtk. I send it to my friend who's using the Gnome build. The
>fonts used in the Gtk build don't correspond to fonts in Gnome (take
>our "Times New Roman" versus their "Times"). Do I:
>
>1) fall back to a default font ("Times" or "Courier") that I know
>will be there? I don't like this much.
>2) copy all of our Unix fonts to the Gnome-Print font directory on
>install and append them to fonts.dir? This seems ugly to me but is
>the most-complete solution that I can think of.
>4) Some function to do "fuzzy" matching on font names (maybe using
>strstr), and match a "Times New Roman" -> "Times". This is better
>than #1 but we might still need to fall back on default fonts.
#2 seems to me to be the most logical solution - a bit messy
to implement (getting all the installation stuff right), but it
definitely sounds good in terms of "doing the right thing".
You may also want to consider #4 and 1 anyway, since someone
at sometime will use a different font and better job we can do to
find a match, the better. I would consider a configuration file, ala
Ghostscript, Xpdf, etc.
>You're right. I think that if we use the gnome-font package and then
>the anti-aliased GnomeCanvas, we'll get tremendous screen
>output(like how the gnumeric-heads brag that recent Gnumeric builds
>render better than Excel). But how do I do this and not break stuff?
Another option in terms of getting anti-aliased text w/o
having to go all the way to gnome-font would be to use something like
FreeType2, which supports VERY nice anti-aliased rendering of both
Type 1 and TrueType fonts. I just did some work with it recently to
integrate it with libart, and it's pretty easy to work with and gives
GREAT results. This way you avoid using XDrawString() entirely!
Leonard
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