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On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:21, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> I have one thing we might opt to research (after we have the project |
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> procedures done). We might want to look into making good-looking fonts |
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> available standardly. |
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This is already being worked on, but we're waiting for some improvements |
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in the xfree/fontconfig area to make this happen. It just isn't powerful |
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enough at the moment. |
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Anyway, this suggestion is very western centered, if you mess with |
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defaults you might easily end up with weird results for non-western |
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users. |
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> In a standard install esp. the helvetica and other adobe fonts are really |
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> ugly. This should not be needed. Also we could try to make sure that the |
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> fonts have exactly the same size as on windows in the browsers as there are |
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> still webdesigners that work with font size assumptions for their layout. |
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You should install exactly the same fonts to have the same effect and |
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thats also a question of installing windows fonts or not. KDE just has |
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bad font defaults, helvetica everywhere is just a bad choice. Current |
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fontconfig setups should solve most of these problems afaik. |
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> Also I read a report complaining about openoffice fonts being ugly esp. on |
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> gentoo (the only distro named). We should not just let that be, but try to |
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> improve, and also write up a good manual on how and why fonts are beautiful/ |
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> ugly. |
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afaik OO uses its own (outdated?) freetype etc. Do from source ebuilds |
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have these problems too ? They could use the system libs and settings. |
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- foser |
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