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Re: Fonts for the backend
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Thomas Weber |
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Re: Fonts for the backend |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:29:55 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On 25/06/08 06:21 +0300, Shai Ayal wrote:
> While windows and OSX come with a core set of fonts that are assured
> to be in all systems, linux has no such feature. Moreover, I am not a
> font expert but I'm not sure the core fonts available in other systems
> are adequate for our needs. Also, I'm not sure how to test for font
> existence in the configure script.
What type of fonts do you need? Truetype?
> My solution in octplot was to include a set of 4 core fonts
> (Helvetica, Times, Courier, Symbol) in the distribution
>
> The pros:
> A known set of core fonts
> the URW fonts are metric-compatible with the core postscript fonts, so
> screen & postscript/pdf fonts look similar
> No need to do system specific searches for fonts
> The cons:
> adds ~150K per font to the distro
I guess I can live with that.
> most linux systems probably have these fonts installed somewhere
Distributions will strip them out, nothing to worry about[1]. People
compiling from source are probably best of with a known good start.
> maintain the fonts
Is this so much work? I really don't have a clue, but I'd say that the
above fonts are pretty stable, aren't they?
[1] Not sure if that actually works that way, but if something like
$./configure --font-path=/usr/share/fonts/truetype
worked, that would be cool.
Thomas
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- Re: Fonts for the backend, Shai Ayal, 2008/06/25
- Re: Fonts for the backend, Thomas Weber, 2008/06/25
- Re: Fonts for the backend, Shai Ayal, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fonts for the backend, John W. Eaton, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fonts for the backend, Shai Ayal, 2008/06/28