Subject: Re: Rant (Was Re: printing in gnome port)
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2001 - 12:19:06 CST
Hey folks,
This thread seems to be getting detoured into the whole font installation
quagmire, so I'd like to refocus people's attention on the following
proposal.
Note that this proposal wouldn't necessarily *require* the installation of
*any* fonts. My question to Tomas and others is whether it's feasible at
all. If so, then we can go ahead and ship a solution which makes all
existing Type 1 and TTF fonts printable and WYSIWYG.
Once again, it's my belief that the current debate -- about whether we
should *also* ship and install a standard set of fonts in some appropriate
location -- may be totally orthogonal to this basic technology question.
Comments?
Paul
motto -- one thing at a time
At 07:12 PM 2/18/01 -0800, I wrote:
>I now get the impression that Tomas is generating the code needed to
>dynamically create and use the font metrics we'll need. Thus, so as long as
>we have a way to:
>
> - locate fonts, and
> - cache the printer metrics for those fonts,
>
>then we should be able to evolve into an increasingly flexible solution.
>
>For example, perhaps we should morph fonts.dir into a cache index for
>printer metrics files generated at runtime. The first time a user chooses
>any new font for use in AbiWord, we'd autogenerate the relevant metrics and
>store them in our cache. That way, all subsequent documents which use that
>font would already have the necessary printer metrics available (from the
>cache).
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