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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 21 19:33:40 +0000 2007 ------- >There is one aspect that deserves another issue of its own, though, >and this is possibly what mtrausch was talking about: > >On Linux, CFF/.otf OpenType fonts do not appear in the menu at all, >so another Linux plattform bug to bring the CFF support at least >to Windows level (supported on screen, no embedding) would be >needed. This is not a general Linux plattform problem btw, other >Linux/Gnome programs support CFF/.otf flavoured OT fonts >just fine. Only OpenOffice has problems, e.g. Gnumeric (a Gnome >app) has not. Precisely. The user interface and the font selection suffers when OTF fonts are in use. There are ways to convert these fonts, but all of the conversion methods are lossy: PS Type 1 fonts are limited to a certain number of glyphs, and TTF fonts can't preserve vital kerning information, as I understand it. It was my impression that OOo was built on GTK+; seeing this strange behavior with the fonts leads me to believe that this is not the case, as other apps that are built on GTK+ (Firefox, Pidgin, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Evince, and Abiword) have support for viewing and printing such fonts, including Fontin. I suppose, then, that the question comes down to whether or not the wheel has to be reinvented or not; it looks like that OOo doesn't use the font engine of the host system, but uses its own instead. Would it be difficult to use the host system's font engine? After all, if someone desires a proofed copy of a document, that's what PDF is for, isn't it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
