Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Wuerthner wrote:
> I would finally like to fix the default/current font issue for the 0.7 
> release. See http://bugzilla.xara.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111
>
> Are there any objections to the strategy described there? Changing the 
> current font to whatever the host system thinks is closest to Arial 
> would finally stop "Arial (missing)" from being shown initially in the 
> text tool on systems without Arial. Charles, ISTR that when I first 
> suggested this change a long time ago you were not too happy with it 
> and even thought it was even a good thing for users to see the "Arial 
> missing" font name?
>
> The consequences of the current font being different from the default 
> font are that even when the user never changes font and just clicks 
> and types, each text object will get its own typeface attribute 
> stating the font that is used - which is a good thing because the 
> document might later be loaded on a different machine that has both 
> Arial and the font used in the document, and then, we certainly do 
> want the same font to be used that was used when creating the 
> document.

Yes. I prefer the strategy described by Neil in the original bug

Alex