[softwarelist] Re: RTF Files -- first impressions

>Sorry, I'm lost. From where is Times New Roman CE missing -- from the
>RTF document, or the OPW document, or both?

 From your computer.

The RTF file contains references to it, the resulting OP DDL file does 
too. It is an oddity that there is no warning about missing fonts in DDL 
files, they just get set to the default font.

If you create a font mapping (OP font manager) for

Times New Roman CE to Times New Roman

the effect will go away. However due to the bug in the RTF loader you 
have the characters may not be right, but at least the bursts of Arial 
will go away.

>Are these not just ranges (subsets) of the Unicode Standard, e.g.
>Cyrillic 0400-04FF?

Some weeks back you pointed out that you got two lots of Times fonts. 
That was caused by a little known font mapping feature in Windows.

Another aspect is that it allows fonts to be invented which cover a 
subset of a Unicode font. However not all software implements this 
feature.

See:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes


>Perhaps I misunderstand what is meant by a Unicode character. Let's take
><small letter t with cedilla> -- MS Word identifies this as Unicode(hex)
>0163 (which it should be). Are you saying it's not true Unicode, but
>emulated by a special font?

You can specify the glyph by either unicode 0x163 or by an 8 bit code in 
an 8 bit font. (actually code 254 in the Windows Central Europe 
character set).

This is easy enough to see in OP. Open the characters window, F11, 
select the Central Europe character set, and there it is. Position 254 
(bottom right) with Unicode 0x163.

I've found the above interesting. I now understand a bit more than I 
did. Again I've fallen victim to the Windows font substitution feature. 
How I'll get around this I don't know.

One approach would be to have an option in OP to display the synthesised 
fonts on the font menu. Another would be to convert to Unicode fonts and 
codes in the RTF loader.



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