From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 23:43:49 EDT
--- Joaquin Cuenca Abela <e98cuenc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:26:46AM +0100, Andrew
> > Dunbar wrote:
> > > > abi-dev. We load a document, map the fonts,
> > > > and when we save it we have something like
> > > > "explicit-font:Arial",
> > > > "mapped-font:zz_AbiWordUglyArial".
> > >
> > > Why save mapped-font at all ? That seems like a
> > > needless complication.
> >
> > From a web background i can understand why you
> > might not see the use fo this but the kind of
> > people who like WYSIWYG and like to specify as
> > exactly as possible what a document is going to
> > look like will probably
>
> I'm with Jody here. The mapping algorithm has 2
> parts: a fixed, reproducible one, and a second part
> driven by user preferences. We should not impose
> the font alias preferences of the author of the
> document in the reader of the document.
>
> In addition, nothing forces the reader to have the
> "mapped" font in his system. So, when this
> information becomes useful in the reading of the
> document? I don't see it useful at all.
From memory I came up with this as a compromise when
the other party in the discussion firmly believed
AbiWord should replace the original font tags with
the names of the font it used for mapping, when the
user saved it again. I called his idea "hard
remapping", and the idea this discussion is focusing
on "soft remapping". The user didn't see the point of
keeping all the Windows font names in a Linux document
just because the original document was written on
Windows. I came up with a compromise which satisfied
the thread at the time.
Maybe the solution looks a little different if the
attributes were names "windows-font" and "linux-font".
I think the user wanted to be sure that his documents
would use the same font on every Linux that had the
same fonts so he wanted it in the document.
I'd rather have a good deterministic mapper like we're
talking about now myself.
Andrew.
> Cheers,
>
>
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