> hmm, on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:29:02PM +0200, Marc Espie said that > > They assume you will always have the microsoft core fonts installed, > > even though these basically ARE NOT open source. > > if i am not mistaken generic names like "times", "helvetica", > "courier", etc are used by more foundries, not only microsoft... > so perhaps there was no such assumption from their side and > simply the prehistoric bitmap fonts are used because, well, > they are prehistoric and have been here forever.. > > on the other hand i am not sure an unconditional system-wide > override should be the way to go, are we now supposed to fight > with config files when we add arbitrary font packages? > > i am quite interested why was this change promoted from a personal > fontconfig setting to a system-wide one. wouldn't it be enough > to have this change for people who want it in their personal > fontconfig overrides?
perhaps you are right. the people who want mozilla to be able to print should configure it so. by default, people should end up with broken ps and pdf files. you had me going for a moment..
