RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

Er, so as I understand it, Alex and me came agreed with your (Neil)
original proposal (and I thought what we all agreed around the table),
and now you agree with Martin's new proposal instead.
 
Er, I'm confused.

Charles

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	From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Howe
	Sent: 27 July 2006 11:13
	To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
	Subject: RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font
	
	

	Yes I think Martin's right that we shouldn't change the default
font. So please go ahead and change the current font only and then this
can be closed I think. It's changing the current font that will solve
the main problem here.

	 

	Neil

	 

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		From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Moir
	Sent: 27 July 2006 10:42
	To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
	Subject: RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font

	 

	I can't recall the exact ins and outs of the debate now, but I
do know this was discussed around the table here with the Phil, Alex,
Gerry etc (one of the few times we were physically in the same location)
and that Neil's suggested solution (i.e. 1st message in the bug report)
was the preferred conclusion at the time.
	
	This still stops the Arial missing message appearing (except
when it's used and really missing). So is there a downside with this
solution?
	
	Charles
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Alex Bligh
	Sent: Thu 27/07/2006 10:27 AM
	To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
	Cc: Alex Bligh
	Subject: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font
	
	Martin Wuerthner wrote:
	> I would finally like to fix the default/current font issue for
the 0.7
	> release. See http://bugzilla.xara.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111
	>
	> Are there any objections to the strategy described there?
Changing the
	> current font to whatever the host system thinks is closest to
Arial
	> would finally stop "Arial (missing)" from being shown
initially in the
	> text tool on systems without Arial. Charles, ISTR that when I
first
	> suggested this change a long time ago you were not too happy
with it
	> and even thought it was even a good thing for users to see the
"Arial
	> missing" font name?
	>
	> The consequences of the current font being different from the
default
	> font are that even when the user never changes font and just
clicks
	> and types, each text object will get its own typeface
attribute
	> stating the font that is used - which is a good thing because
the
	> document might later be loaded on a different machine that has
both
	> Arial and the font used in the document, and then, we
certainly do
	> want the same font to be used that was used when creating the
	> document.
	
	Yes. I prefer the strategy described by Neil in the original bug
	
	Alex