Re: ps/tt fonts in gnome apps

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Nathan Clegg wrote:
> 
> I wasn't so much planning on X making those fonts available, but rather
> the applications themselves using the same fonts that X does, and then
> possibly using X's prior knowledge of them for simpler display.  It seems
> logical to me to say "Hey, gnumeric, X is using the fonts in THIS
> directory.  You should too."
>

I think gnome-print will support this eventually...
 
> Where is this documented?  How can I "install" these fonts into gnumeric
> and abiword?  Will gnome-print be used more widely in gnome applications
> in the future?

gnome-print is undocumented and on top of that the font install stuff
doesn't work very well "on its own" without intervention. I have no idea
how it works, myself. :-)

You will have to ask AbiSource about AbiWord.

>  Adding fonts to a central place to make them accessible to
> all gnome applications is one step closer to my dream of all X
> applications.  I hate comparing unix to windows and macintosh, but it does
> seem like this is one area where unix really does come up short.
>

X sucks here.
 
> Incidentally, how does gimp do it?  It appears to have seamless access to
> all of the fonts X does, including my separate tcp truetype font server. 
> This seems the proper way to do it, to me.
> 

Gimp doesn't need the font outlines because it is raster-image-based. That
is, it can just use the pixels. 

Gnumeric and AbiWord want to print to postscript, so they need to know the
font outlines or the output would be all pixelated. Yes Gimp prints to
postscript but it's just exporting a raster image, i.e. it's pretending
the text is an image, rather than a vector outline description.

Havoc