Craig Ringer a ?crit : > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 08:20 -0400, Louis Desjardins wrote: > > >>What can work better is >>1. ability to install/uninstall fonts when a document is open > > > Is that necessary? My personal view is that all that's really needed is > to hide/unhide, enable/disable, or perhaps at most load/unload fonts, at > least in a Scribus-specific solution.
Hi Craig, You must be right. My use of the words install/uninstall must refer to a total different issue. So, yes, load/unload is what I think can work better, while the document is open. In a very definite environment, it couldn't be a must but when you deal everyday with lots of different files coming from most anywhere, you need the fonts to be there quick. > > Unlike the Macintosh, there is no major system-wide performance and > reliability hit with having lots of fonts present, the worst potential > effect being somewhat increased memory use. Consequently, I'm not sure > the same rather heavy handed measures used on the mac are necessary. I'm glad to know that! > > >>I have one question about this: >>Is it possible to make use of aliases of fonts instead of the fonts >>themselves so we can avoid duplicating fonts to set the font folders >>we need and put the aliases in instead? If so, can someone tell me >>how. > > > You want symbolic links (or, failing that, you could use hard links). > Aliases are a Mac thing (actually a HFS/HFS+ thing, not even OS/X's UFS > implementation supports them) and work somewhat differently to anything > you'll currently find on UNIX. > > Check out "man ln". Symlinking a bunch of fonts into $HOME/.fonts from > sorted source dirs then re-running fc-cache and relaunching apps should > do the trick. I'm hoping the "relaunching" bit can be eliminated by > having fontconfig reload its cache when we notice the cache file > changes, then check for differences ... we'll see. > > >>One other thing that calls for a decent font manager tool in the >>working environment is if we're going to use as tightly as possible >>other applications such as OpenOffice.org in the workflow (and we >>certainly will, I guess). Make use of the stylesheets implies make >>use of the same fonts. If each of the programs have their own way to >>manage fonts, isn't it going to be close to unmanageable? > > > They all use fontconfig... that's part of why I want to focus on that as > a possible base for any solution. My understanding is this is clearly a DTP issue (it always ends up to us!!!). Would that be a different project, though? Thanks for the feedback and answers! Louis > > -- > Craig Ringer > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Louis Desjardins Pr?sident Mardigrafe inc. t?l. +1 514 934 1353 http://www.mardigrafe.com
