[albatross-users] Update: Debian package of Albatross 1.10

[Fabian Fagerholm]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:50, Dave Cole wrote:
> You are right.  I suppose I should send them a message telling them
> that I think they have made a very bad decision with their font
> handling for EPS generation.  They have thrown all font hinting
> technology out of the window and claim the feature as a clever move
> :-).

Yes, it's explained in http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/fonts.html
Apparently, they've had a lot of trouble with the fonts earlier, and
have made this sacrifice in order to fix the other issues. But it's a
bad idea; it breaks many things, such as PDF conversion. See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114372 Perhaps this remaning
issue could be fixed without reintroducing the previous mess.

But there are other issues as well. dia now expects to have been run
before when using the --export option (it looks for the ~/.dia
directory), and regardless of that and the --nosplash switch, it bails
out if it can't find a valid DISPLAY environment variable.

Will you talk to them about the font stuff?

Cheers,
-- 
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net>
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