Fonts in General [was Re: AbiWord-2.0 and fonts on Mac OS X 10.3.2 (fink/X11)] (fwd)

From: Alan Horkan (horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 14:20:36 EST

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    Apologies,
    I meant to send the message to the developers list.

    - Alan

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    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    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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