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

[Dave Cole]

>>>>> "Fabian" == Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net> writes:

Fabian> 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
>> :-).

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

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

Fabian> Will you talk to them about the font stuff?

I posted a new bug:

        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119547

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