Re: font substitution

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 05:00:18 EDT

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     --- Karl Ove Hufthammer <lister@huftis.org> wrote: >
    Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
    >
    news:20020704024158.49994.qmail@web9605.mail.yahoo.com:
    >
    > > Absolutely. There should be a preference editor
    > > somewhere where the user can set which fonts
    > > substiture for which fonts.
    >
    > Most fonts[1] contain PANOSE[2][3] information. If
    > this
    > information is embedded in documents (they don't
    > take up much
    > space -- only 8 digits for each fonts), they can be
    > used to make
    > *intelligent* font substitutions[4].
    >
    > In addition, a simple look-up table for most common
    > fonts (Times
    > New Roman --> Times, Arial --> Helvetica) could be
    > built-in
    > AbiWord.

    Both sound like great suggestions.
    Courier is probably the third of the most important
    font types.

    Andrew.

    > Footnotes
    > =========
    >
    > [1] At least medium to high-quality fonts, which are
    > the only font
    > which should (and usually will) be used in
    > documents.
    > [2] <URL:
    > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/notes.html#panose >
    > [3] <URL: http://www.panose.com/hardware/pan1.asp >
    > [4] <URL:
    >
    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-selection
    > >
    >
    > --
    > Karl Ove Hufthammer

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