Subject: font name: Helvetic vs Helvetica
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 12:29:46 CDT
Hi,
Among the fonts that included with AW there is "Helvetic". Is there any
reason to choose this name instead of "Helvetica"? May be because it's a
trademark?
Anyway, the fact that this name is not "Helvetica" causes some problems
when exporting to RTF. When such file is opened in Wordpad from Win95 OSR2,
it really uses font named helvetic, that is not localized (fixing RTF
manually to helvetica engages right font and the document is imported without
any problems). Word2000 opens that file without any problem though.
It's obvious that renaming "helvetic" to "helvetica" in fonts.dir will
produce desired effect, but it will cause problems with reading existing
Abiword files. But this should be worked out before 0.9 IMO.
Any comments?
Best regards,
-Vlad
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