better back-art support in core (Was: Re: Problem getting back-art better back-art support in core (Was: Re: Problem getting back-art

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

-art seems to be most complete and working backed, but it is treated as 
'optional and not supported, so make it work it yourself'. It is unfair :)

To prevent font dificulties, would it be possible to include fonts in some 
core-* package? I would suggest to include them (at least basic font set) in 
core-gui or create (as i have proposed few monts ago) another gnustep-core 
package called core-resources or something like that for all -gui resources. 
Another option is to create separate -font backends for font handling. This can 
be useful for general font management, including management of screen and 
printer fonts, font substitution/matching, inlining non-standard fonts in 
.ps/.pdf output... With this -font backends one can use both X and freetype 
fonts for example, or Windows and free type fonts at the same time.

Another -art related issues are art dependencies. -art depends on lib-freetype 
and libart. Presonaly i do not like the solution of including foreign libs in 
another project, but if they are included at least in distributed packages it 
will make installation much easier.
Moreover, some systems are starting to use newer version of freetype which does 
not work well without patching back-art (some does not even with patches). Is 
it possible to fix it?

What do you think?

Stefan Urbanek

On 2003-06-05 02:51:34 +0200 Chris B. Vetter <chrisv@web4inc.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 02:55:12 +0300
> Christopher Culver <crculver@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > If you're using back-art, you have to create your own fonts using the makenfont 
> > tool, or download nfonts that are already floating around
> > out there on the web. They go in /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Fonts/.
> > back- art will not use X's fonts.
>
> Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that. You can put the fonts either in
>
>    ../System/Library/Fonts/
>
> or your user's
>
>    ~/GNUstep/Library/Fonts/
>
> Back-art will scan both directories.
>
> > I'm sure someone'll be around in a few minutes with an URL for nfonts.
>
>    http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/nfont%20packages
>
> has some information on nfonts and links where to download fonts from.

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