Re: ps/tt fonts in gnome apps

[Andrew Edem <aedem Kaxis PenguinPowered COM>]

That would involve turning TT fonts into vector graphics. I'm not sure of the
efficiency of the canvas, and TT fonts can be very complex in nature. What
about an extension to the canvas widget to support font rendering (without X)?

-Andrew

Cody Russell wrote:

> If you write an app that loads TT fonts and displays them in a canvas
> (using bpaths or whatever) that would not be hard to print would it?
>
> Cody
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> > Because those fonts are being converted to X fonts on-the-fly via an X
> > server (I assume), and there is no way to ask X for the printable version
> > of a font. Thus you can't use X fonts for any application that wants to
> > print.
> >
> > Yes, this aspect of X sucks a lot.
> >
> > Gnumeric and AbiWord (in two different ways) install their own set of
> > fonts with a known X-font/printable-font mapping so they can both display
> > and print the font.
> >
> > Havoc
> >
> >
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