gnome-print should definitely fetch the fonts from xfs or the x server.
Frankly, this crap of configuring the same thing all the time in different places
pisses me off and it's about the only thing about linux and unix that bothers me.
Really.
Can someone let the gnome-print team know about this issue? Thanks
"Arjan J. Molenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Henstridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 9:57 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: DIA and printing
> >
> >
> > Actually, it can't print arbitrary X fonts. The list of
> > fonts gnome-print
> > can use is contained in $(prefix)/share/fonts/fontmap. The default
> > install will use all the type1 outline fonts that came with X
> > and the URW
> > fonts (free, high quality versions of the standard postscript
> > fonts) that
> > come with ghostscript though.
> >
> > Getting fonts correct is one of the most difficult things to
> > get right. I
> > still have not got font issues completely sorted out for my SVG output
> > filter.
> >
> > James.
>
> Hmmm... I thought I read it in the gnome-print design paper...
>
> sorry for the mistake...
>
> I hope they will make True-Type printing work, though.
>
> Arjan
>
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