Subject: Re: Gnome-Print was:Re: TODO Before the release
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 09:16:01 CDT
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> According to Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>:
>
> > I don't think this can be right. The 8 bit numbers that gives us our
> > symbols Just Work for X11 with adobe-font-specific enconding. Furthermore
> > they used to print fine too until some recent wierd bug with reMapGlyphs
> > screwed them up.
>
> Is there a bug # ? Does anyone have had a look at the bug to sqash it ?
>
Yes. See:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561
It's rezn's doc. We used to be able to print Symbol fonts just fine.
>
> > Furthermore when we export Symbol glyphs to RTF, using their regular 8-bit
> > encodings, MS Word displays them perfectly. In fact that is how I got some
> > emergency printing done of my own and rezn's documents with Symbol fonts.
> > I exported them to rtf and imported the document in MS Word and printed
> > it. It came out just the way it looks on my AbiWord Screen.
>
> I can't say the same for import. :-/
>
Well glyphs from Symbol Fonts from MS Word RTF appear as the correct
glyphs in Symbol Fonts in AbiWord.
Cheers
Martin
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