Subject: Re: Commit: Clipart
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 09:30:20 CDT
Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Alan wrote:
>
> > Jared Davis wrote:
> > >
> > > I got a little excited at the idea of a clipart library.
> > > I made some simple bullets and arrows. I don't have CVS access so I put
> > > them on my web server.
> > > download: http://aiken.clan11.com/abiword/clipart.tar.gz
> > > or browse: http://aiken.clan11.com/abiword/clipart/
> >
> >
> > I was looking at the bulleted list (on windows) and wondering if users
> > can specify and image as the bullet/marker?
> >
> > Also do i need a specific font to get the Cusotmised lists
> > (heart/diamond/square lists) to display correctly?
> >
> > On my very flakey and unstable windows98 box, most of these lists dont
> > display correctly.
> > On the win2000 machine im writing this mail some of the list display
> > correctly but
> > Triangle list looks like small oval shapes,
> > Star List looks like a drop of water shape,
> > tick list is a horizontally striped rectangle,
> > heart list looks like a plus symbol/star,
> > hand list looks like an envelope.
> >
> > i have not yet submitted this to bugzilla (using the June 4th Nightly
> > build on Windows)
> >
>
> Submit this to bugzilla. This problem is caused because we're not
> specifying the correct font for these glyphs in Windows. Adobe ships a
> Font called "Dingbats" that have these glyphs in them. There is a one to
> one mapping of these glyphs in the Windows font called "Monograph 1" I
> think.
>
> Someone who has seen the Dingbats font set should browse the Windows fonts
> sets and find the replacement font set. We have the code in place to map
> these over, we just have to invoke it.
Also, dingbats are part of Unicode. All uicode windows boxen come
with the font "Arial Unicode MS" which has all the dingbats:
U+2600 to U+27BE. Code 2000 is a free unicode font which includes
dingbats.
Andrew Dunbar.
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