On Sunday 05 June 2005 23:47, Lee Braiden wrote:
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 22:13, Craig Bradney wrote:
Simply, your OS will lie to you.
Yes. Many will do auto glyph substitution which you certainly DO NOT want in DTP (they will often show more glyphs than are available within a certain font file). Many are too complicated and the interfaces are inconsistent with the application, especially across platform.
Ahh, font aliases? That's good point, yes.
On complexity of the character selection tools, though, I think that would be a matter best solved by adding a basic mode to the tools, rather than trying to re-invent the wheel.
At least for Gnome, a request should be put in to have an option to stop the glyph substitution/font aliasing. Its completely inappropriate for DTP work, and I'd also say for Inkscape's pure vector use too (EPS and PDF export wont like substituted glyphs in this sense). However, for those of us who don't use Gnome, or arent on Linux, this doesnt help.
Craig