Another F11 feature worth testing

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 09:51:16 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 09:16 +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> Are we talking less "Automatic Font Installation" in a "you don't
> Liberation Serif which this document wants to use, want to install it"
> kind of a way but more "Automatic code-point coverage font installation"
> in a "to display this text you need a font that contains the requested
> glyphs".

Yes. You can use PackageKit if you want a specific font name, although
that's not covered in this feature. The abiword guys were interested in
using PackageKit to install fonts and dictionaries at one point,
although I don't think there is any code yet.

Richard.





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