Re: Loss of enthusiasim for AbiWord

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 09:52:42 GMT

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    begin Mike Nordell <tamlin@algonet.se> quotation:

    > Do you know of any other WYSIWYG editors in X land that gets display and
    > printing fonts the same without the apparent problems AbiWord has? If so,
    > what do they do different from what AbiWord does?

    The all render themselves the fonts and mostdly ship their own fonts. That
    is what Applix, StarOffice and WordPerfect do, at least to what I could see.

    On the other side, LyX choose to let LaTeX do it :-))

    For KWord, they use the KDE (probably Qt) font management.

    Hub



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