From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 12:25:00 EDT
--- Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com> wrote:
>
> >ie. if we change Arial for Helvetica, we have to
> show in the
> >font family combo box the Helvetica name (as this
> is the font the
> >abiword is using to display the text).
>
> Agreed.
>
> But you may also wish to alert the user as well
> since their
> document WILL reflow based on the new metrics.
yup. IMO that's a must. We should inform the user
that he is not going to see the document exactly as it
was originally layed.
But we should also provide a [x] Don't show anymore
this dialog box, because if he sees it once, chances
are that the dialog box pops everytime he opens a
document created on an alien OS
> >This substitution should be a "only visual" one
> (only the string in the
> >GUI is affected, but the doc is still saved with
> "Arial"), or a "hard"
> >one (the file is saved with "Helvetica").
>
> I would give the user a choice about this one,
> given the
> metrics changes and that they may now be using this
> file always on
> the new machine and may want it changed permanently.
I think that by default we should pick the less
intrusive option (ie, soft changes), because that way
the user can still later change the choice to "hard
changes" (once you do a hard change, you can not come
back to a soft change on a given document).
The option of give the user the word as what it wants
by default the first time the problem arises is
tempting, but I don't know if a "normal" user (I mean,
a REALLY NORMAL ONE, not these weird guys that use
"lunix" or whatever :) would understand what's all
that "original fonts not available" businness. If we
go this path, we definitively will need a good wording
for the dialog box.
Cheers,
=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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