From: Alan Horkan (horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 14:20:36 EST
Apologies,
I meant to send the message to the developers list.
- Alan
(I've set the reply-to: to go to the developer list, please make sure you
do NOT reply all)
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:09:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Horkan <horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: abiword-user_at_abisource.com
Subject: Fonts in General [was Re: AbiWord-2.0 and fonts on Mac OS X 10.3.2
(fink/X11)]
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Francis James Franklin wrote:
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:37:06 +0000
> From: Francis James Franklin <f.j.franklin_at_sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: berico_at_tiscali.dk
> Cc: abiword-user_at_abisource.com
> Subject: AbiWord-2.0 and fonts on Mac OS X 10.3.2 (fink/X11)
>
> On 6 Feb 2004, at 16:05, berico_at_tiscali.dk wrote:
> > Recently I downloaded and compiled AbiWord 2.0.1-2 (unstable) on my Mac
> > using Fink.For some reason I can't get the fonts to work. When I open a
> > new AbiWord document and try to type some text all the letters appear
> > in
> > white. It won't allow me to change the text color.
>
> I've just been looking at fink's abiword-2.0.2-21 on Mac OS X 10.3.2
>
> When AbiWord starts, the current font is "Times New Roman" which is not
> listed in the font list. Text in menus, boxes & tooltips is fine, but
For greater cross platform consistancy would it be a good idea to ship
and use the Bitstream fonts by default on all platforms?
I asked on IRC if anyone had suggested already and it hadn't so I'm
suggesting it now. God, bad, mad? Comments?
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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