Re: Helvetica font

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Stefan Urbanek <stefan@agentfarms.net> wrote:
> On 2004-06-13 07:26:30 +0200 Gregory John Casamento
> <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > You don't need to...
> > 
> > simply use the FreeFont:
> > 
> > default write NSGlobalDomain NSFont 'FreeSans'
> > default write NSGlobalDomain NSFontSize '12'
> > 
> > It is made to look like Helvetica.
> 
> Even this is fine for local use and for display only, there is a problem with
> portability. You use FreeSans and the other application will not know, that
> it is Helvetica. Moreover, it may cause problems on printing or exporting to
> ps/pdf...

Well, I've been arguing for a standard set of fonts to be distributed with
GNUstep for a while now.

It is possible, in Gorm, to select the "system font" and have it encoded as
such.   Unfortunately that feature has not always been available, so some older
.gorm interface files might have "Helvetica" encoded directly.   This is a
breeze to fix, BTW, just load them up in Gorm and specify the font where you
want it to be the "system font" or some other default font.  Additionally, in
the NSFont class, there is a fallback such that if the selected font can't be
found, it tries the system font, if the system font isn't specified, it tries
Helvetica.

> And "look like" is very vague when dealing with fonts ;-)

Well..  "look like" means it is a copy of Helvetica.   It's meant to be a
replacement for it.

> Stefan

GJC 
 
 


=====
Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.
#### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.


        
                
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