Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Wuerthner wrote:
> But if we do not always do it, why do it at all? Just to avoid a 
> single font attribute that contains the name of a font that is not 
> installed? We will have lots of them in the tree anyway simply by 
> loading a document containing fonts that are not installed. We do not 
> do "hard" font substition, just "soft" font substitution, i.e., the 
> text remains in the unknown font but when it is displayed the default 
> font is used instead.

I had been presuming the implementation time of either option would
be the same.

IE (in PsuedoCode)
  FixFontAttributeIfUnusedAndUninstalled(CurrentAttribute);
becomes
  FixFontAttributeIfUnusedAndUninstalled(CurrentAttribute);
  FixFontAttributeIfUnusedAndUninstalled(DefaultAttribute);

Somewhere during the long discussion at GP it became obvious we needed
to fix both. I now can't remember why. Anyone else? But if the
implementation time is the same, why not, now we know it's harmless?

Alex