Fwd: Dingbats font

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ingo Brückl <ib@wupperonline.de> wrote:
>
> Which Dingbats font should be used with AbiWord? Was there once one
> distributed with AbiWord? Most list styles refer to font "Dingbats".
>
> Ingo

Although Zapf Dingbats (specifically ITC Zapf Dingbats) is probably
the most commonly expected by Windows and Mac users (being embedded in
Adobe PDF), it not "libre" and so not a good choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapf_Dingbats

unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf

One of the LibreOffice opensymbol RPMs is probably a pretty good candidate.

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=font%28opensymbol%29

Please note that the issue of Zapf Dingbat > Dingbat substitution is
not uncommon in FOSS, specifically in PDF handling tools like Poppler,
where they make some specific recommendations.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/poppler

Hope that helps.

cjl
Received on Mon Jul 30 23:01:00 2012