Summary: | Visual preview of fonts in document properties dialog. | ||
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Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | Robert Knight <robertknight> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | wishlist | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | unspecified | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Robert Knight
2008-01-12 21:00:05 UTC
> if the font list included a visual preview of the font. This could work only for fonts not embedded in the document. > For example, by rendering each font name with that font. Well, you should always write the font name in the current font, as the font could have non-Latin1 characters for the ones of its name (think about a font for old greek alphabet...) Once I did http://img417.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tmp39sd7.png, but we decided that the current way was more "functional" (albeit a bit "classic"). Do you really get empty types? As far as i remmeber this is not possible, can i get a pdf with this behaviour? From an IRC discussion about Pino's shot: <Sho_> Hm well, my first impression is this: I don't see the format in the shot as an imrovement over the current table view, since it basically shows the same data just in a format that has you scroll more to get an overview, which I find less desirable. However the move to that list style would be more justified if it would show more/different data, like a font preview right in the list. <Sho_> If I consider why I would ever use the font list, it's this: I open a document, I see a font I like in it, and I want to find out the name of that font, so I go into the list, scan for the font I like by looking for its preview, and then see the name. <Sho_> And that would be speedier and more discoverable with an in-line preview vs. a tooltip I might never know about. <Sho_> In the above scenario, if there's no preview or I can't find it, I have to Google for all the font names in the list I don't know and compare the images I find to the document to find out which name is the name of the font that I like. <Sho_> However if there's a preview, Okular has just saved me lots of time and I'm happy and tell my friends Okular is a great tool to discover fonts in PDF documents. ;) In fact, I wonder if it would be possible to build a color chooser-like tool into the dialog, i.e. activate the tool, click on text in the document, and the list selects the responsible one. Pino? ;) SVN commit 779697 by pino: Add a tooltip with the embedded status of the font, and the visual preview of it if it is not embedded. (Columns were simplified by a previous commit.) BUG: 155568 M +30 -0 propertiesdialog.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=779697 |