Re: Why dose art not use fontconfig?

Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
> I'm not going to waist my breath arguing over what my
app may, or may
> not, be capable of doing. Since the feature in question
hasn't been
> implemented yet, you can hardly argue either way.
> 
> (:

Well, you *did* describe the feature as being, effectively,
a glorified
mknfonts -- which is useful, but not sufficient. I would
suggest something
more interactive, so the human using the program gets a
chance to affect the
result.



By the way, there was a (commercial) font manager for
NeXTStep called
FontMonger IIRC that would take Adobe Type 1 fonts for the
Mac and Windows,
build groups of .font packages (a .font contains only one
face, so you need
them in groups to get a full font family), and generate
screen fonts to reside
inside them. It was rather nice. IIRC, at some point it did
some (rather poor)
conversions from TrueType to Type 1 (it had to be poor since
TrueType fonts
contain quadratic Bézier splines, while PostScript/PDF/etc.
use cubic).

[snip]

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> Well, you *did* describe the feature as being,
effectively, a  
> glorified
> mknfonts -- which is useful, but not sufficient. I
would suggest  
> something
> more interactive, so the human using the program gets a
chance to  
> affect the
> result.

I would argue the reverse -- make the initial font
conversion a  
virtually invisible process initially, something that
doesn't require  
any additional user interaction, as painless as just
dragging a font  
into the Font Manager window or clicking the + button on the
bottom  
of the window and selecting the font.

Then, after the font is on the system and has gone through
the  
conversion/wrapping process, allow the user to make
adjustments to  
the nfont plist via a nice GUI frontend, if and only if they
desire  
that level of control.


J.





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