From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 03 2002 - 22:34:51 EDT
--- Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr>
wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 19:43, Mark Gilbert
wrote:
> > Just open a dialog "Unable to locate font XYZ,
> defaulting to times new
> > roman" and leave it simple.
>
> ok, but after the dialog box, what should I do,
> "hard" substitution or
> "only visual" substitution?
>
> I'm personally tempted by a "hard" substitution
No no. You should definitely only do a visual
substitution. I should be able to create a document
with Arial fonts for Windows users even when I'm on
a machine that doesn't have them.
I especially should be able to edit such a doc created
on a Windows machine, and save my changes without
having changed the font in the document.
If the user chooses two fonts which look alike, that
is really their problem. For church secretaries it
probably won't matter, for more technical users, they
should be capable of adding text to a document in its
existing fonts without having to do a "visual match".
It would be possible to warn the user if they are
beginning to use, save, or load a document which uses
more than one "alias" to the same visual font. But I
doubt that other WPs do this or have to, it should be
optional if it's there at all.
We could possibly make it part of a future "show
codes"
option.
Styles may help prevent the forseen problems from
ocurring in the first place.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Joaquín Cuenca Abela
> cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr
>
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