From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 22:55:47 EDT
--- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote: >
>
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:08:53 +1000 (EST)
> > From: Martin Sevior
> <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>
> > Cc: AbiWord Developer Mailing List
> <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> > Subject: Re: print preview screenshot
>
> > > http://pino.frontisterion.nl/uwog/secret.jpg
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
> but then Dingbats and symbol fonts are totally
> unrecognisable !
Argh! Yes but fonts which don't respect Unicode
encoding *always* require special case code. This
means *always* checking for the names "Symbol" and
"Dingbats". Importers, exporters, printing code etc
already have to do this. Other "custom" fonts are
just going to have to break like they also do in Word
and co.
> word 97 does not seem to do this, just as in Abiword
> you have to go to the font dialog to get a font
> preview (or at least not in my version)
>
> I cannot recall how newer versions of microsoft word
> do this so i am probably misunderstanding or there
> is probably some way to do this properly.
> This seems to be exactly what this feature request
> is asking for
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3293
I'm not sure about Word but I've seen other programs
do it. I think maybe Mozilla and/or MSIE.
But I'm a bit hesitant to do it this way because it's
so intensive - you have to load and render up every
font in the system. That makes lots of processor and
disk work. But I'm not against it either really...
> This would be less of a problem if changing the font
> did not cause Abiword to lose the selection. I
> would have sworn there was a bug for this but i
> have not found it.
Really? That's not good and does need a bug.
> i would really like to see this tho'
>
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/abi/ui/microsoft-word97_fonts_fonttoolbarMostRecentlyUsed_003.png
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765
> Most recently used fonts
Me too! I always use this feature in Word.
But we shouldn't limit it to fonts. The Word language
selection tool does the same - which I also use.
I think we need a nice new GUI component that we can
use in both these places - and maybe there's other
places where it makes sense.
Andrew Dunbar.
> > To do it in GTK 2 would require modification of
> > the combo box widget I think. Seth Nichol thinks
> > this would be "rather easy" :-)
>
> Sincerely
> Alan Horkan
>
> http://abisource.com
> http://gnome.org
> http://mozilla.org
>
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