Subject: Re: ttf printing
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 23:13:01 CST
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, WJCarpenter wrote:
> paul> Wow! This sounds too good to be true. Getting TTF fonts to
> paul> Just Work on Unix (rather than just Type 1) has been a constant
> paul> feature request for over 2 years now. Is today finally the day
> paul> that this gets put to rest?
>
> tomas> I am wondering what to do with the utility -- perhaps it might
> tomas> go into abi/src/other and be build and installed in
> tomas> AbiSuite/bin for the Unix build.
>
> As long as we're sort of just, like, you know, talking about Unix, I
> wonder what the feasibility would be of someday doing the conversion
> on the fly if the admin (or whoever) hadn't pre-generated the files.
> You know, show all the TTFs you can find in the font list, and if
> someone actually uses one, look for the AFM file. If you don't find
> the AFM file, spawn this little utility to make one, in The Right
> Place if you have perms, else in /usr/tmp/ or whatever. (Or does it
> actually require significant human intervention?)
I agree. I'd like a clever little dialog that would automatically convert
and register TTF's for you. For example in the preferences dialog, have a
button that says "register new fonts" and walks you through all that is
needed.
Unix users would love us for doing that.
Cheers
Martin
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