Re: print preview screenshot

From: Joaquín Cuenca Abela (cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 13:54:24 EDT

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    On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 19:47, Alan Horkan wrote:
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    > > > > > http://pino.frontisterion.nl/uwog/secret.jpg
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    > > > > Hi Marc,
    > > > > This is really nice work and will be a significant new feature for
    > > > > us. However I was wondering if you could go one better and display the
    > > > > font name in the font itself within the drop down box.
    > > > >
    > > > > ie So the font "Comic Sans MS" is displayed in Comic Sans MS font.
    > > > >
    > > > > This is what MS Word 2000/97 does.
    > >
    > > Excellent suggestion IMHO.
    > >
    > > > but then Dingbats and symbol fonts are totally unrecognisable !
    > >
    > > These fonts will require a bit more of care, yes.
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    > Is there any way to automatically identify a symbol fonts?

    Not a symbol, but you can know if it has the need glyphs or not. If
    that becomes a problem I can implement it pretty quickly, don't worry :)

    > If not then this sounds like it would need a lot more care and we could
    > get tripped up everytime someone adds a knew symbol font we dont
    > currently know about.

    don't worry about that (well, at least with the xft build)

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Joaquín Cuenca Abela
cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr

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