Re: TTF font usage

(sorry if this is of topic and probably not very clever, as I do not know too much about fonts)

Could it be a good thing actualy to provide default fonts with GPE developement framework? So that developers use that ones through transparent interface...

Requirement could be,
3 sizes (small, normal, large)
with flavor (normal OR bold) AND (regular OR italic)

then some kind of:
GdkFont * gpe_font_load(gchar * gpe_font_name);
with gpe_font_name = [small|normal|large]-[normal|bold]-[regular|italic]

(or is it just using a gpe-gtkrc styles?)

luc

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:53:42 +0200
Nils Faerber <nils_at_kernelconcepts.de> wrote:

> Hi all!
> I am currently in the middle of tryiong to install most of GPE on a virgin device. While doing so I found that many packages rely on the existance of TTF fonts, especially on those fonts provided by M$, e.g. Verdana.
> Those fonts are npot entirely free. Especially they cannot be provided by any distribution (that's why they are not in Familiar).
>
> So my big please:
> Could those developers and/or package maintainers plase either provide a free alternative or change the font specification to something more reasonable?
>
> If you do not have the monospace M$ font installed, for example a rxvt-aa is unreadable! And many others are too or at least look crappy...
>
> Thanks!
>
> CU
> nils faerber
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Received on Mon Jul 29 2002 - 22:12:23 EDT