Re: Accessing fonts actually listed.

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Mon, Nov 25, 2002, Ã 04:14:45PM +0000, Ãystein GodÃy a Ãcrit:
>
> > > > It would be nice to be able to set the default fonts in diagrams. In
> > > > my case the
> > > > default is one of the fonts not viewable by Dia. So im not getting
> > > > anywhere and must revert to other, lesser, tools.
> > >
> > > Fonts for most things can be set by double-clicking their icons and
> > > setting defaults there.
> >
> > Is it possible to set a default font through a source file (e.g. diarc)
> > or environment? I would like to change the default courier with some
> > other font... The double clicking method worked fine, but all settings
> > were lost when I terminated dia. Is there any method to avoid this?
>
> CVS saves the defaults, and defaults to an entirely different set of
> fonts (as seen by Pango/FreeType/LarsKnowsBetter). Not much point as of
> now to do this in 0.90.

Indeed.  And speaking of, I finally got the font selection dialog to be
gdk-neutral, so fonts are getting into a reasonable shape.  There's still
a problem with text leaving dirt when shrinking, but I think we can look at
a release soon.  Cyrille, Hans, Steffen, are there any showstoppers right
now?

-Lars

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