Font system integration

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

GNUstep has great thing: The Text System.
Another thing that i consider a big plus is very easy font management in 
back-art. It has several advantages:
- users know where all fonts are stored - font paths are well defined for all 
systems
- it is easy to add/remove fonts
- ordinary users can add/remove fonts
- old NeXT fonts can be reused
- ...

Besides those pluses, there is a problem. Problem is with printing. Fonts 
presented in font panel are backend fonts, but they are also used in printed 
documents (when you print a text view, for example). If printed into a .ps 
file, all non-ghostscript standard fonts are undefined.
Is there a way for integrating font displaying and font pringing?

I think that we will also need something like font manager, for exporting 
non-standard fonts into .ps files or dealing with font substitution. In 
back-art we usualy have a postrscript font, that should be included in the .ps 
file, but what about those back-x11 fonts or ttf fonts from back-art?

Stefan Urbanek