Gail Banaszkiewicz wrote:
I may be doing something that would help. Have a look at my Summer of Code proposal found on this page http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~gbanaszk/code/soc07/index.htm. The suggested order of attack for the items in my proposal has UI Redesign at the top and Font Family Variants next. I am currently working on a bug (making <tref> work) but will be moving to the UI when that's done. Maybe I will get to the font family stuff before the end of the summer, but maybe not - even if I do not, I intend to work on it during school, too.
I have an undergoing experiment about authoring websites using 100% Inkscape and one of the problems I see is about fonts: you want the layout to remain the same on every viewer, no matter which platform is used, but fonts availability is a big problem. A solution I see is to use fonts that are the metric equivalents of the Microsoft fonts (like the recently released Liberation [2]) and set a fall-back solution for your document to use either Liberation or Microsoft fonts, which is available.
In HTML/CSS one would do either: font-family: "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif ; or font-family: Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif ;
I think it would be incredibly cool and useful to have in Inkscape an easy GUI to manually provide those fall-back fonts.
[1] - http://svg.nicubunu.ro/ [2] - https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ - http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/