Re: Status of latin OpenType support in Gnome

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek etf cuni cz>]

> > Some programs seem to have some support for .otf flavoured fonts
> > (e.g. gedit), some don't (AbiWord, OpenOffice).
> 
> OpenOffice has it's own font handling code and doesn't really
> use fontconfig. It's quite a mess. Someday, someone will dive
> in and port it to Pango.
> 
> Note that even gedit isn't perfect ... gnome-print (what gedit
> uses to print) can't currently print OpenType/CFF fonts.
> 
> Don't know about abiword offhand.

AFAIK Abiword doesn't use pango yet.

Petr Tomasek

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