Re: Font trouble

[Levi Bard <levi bard sytes net>]

On 16 Sep 2002 18:47:06 -0500
Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> 
> The current CVS has some nasty problems with fonts.  In particular, fonts
> font interactively may be missing when printing.  This is because we use
> Freetype to print (and export to PNG), but X fonts to render.  While the
> two systems find mostly the same fonts, the names are different (perry <>
> perrygothic, comics <> comicscartoon etc).  Thus, when trying to print with
> perrygothic, Freetype fails to find it and picks a placeholder.  Not
> pretty.
> 
> This can all be solved by always using Freetype for rendering.  However,
> the Win32 version does its own Window-specific printing, and thus so far
> hasn't required Freetype (and would rather not).  I can't test the Win32
> version at the moment, can anybody tell me if the displayed and printed
> fonts are in sync?

The displayed and printed fonts are not quite in sync on win32, but I'm not sure whether the resulting printout is enough different from the display to warrant any kind of major changes.  The differences I had on UML models for a small c++ project were almost unnoticeable.

Levi