Comment 5 for bug 1099453

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Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov) wrote :

Are there any cases where a user wants the screen and printing
fonts to be different?

Such a situation was possible in older gschem versions if there
were no printing font corresponding to the used screen font in the
system. This was a Postscript printing issue. Doesn't cairo solve
this? And TBH, the need to set up the different font always was
very uncomfortable for me (I've spent so much time on this).

Now I see that cairo can even print fonts which are not present in
my system, that is, for instance, print italic version of a font
which doesn't contain italic glyphs. I like this feature very
much.

As a user, I'd always prefer to immediately see what will be
printed. And I believe most users would like to have WYSIWYG where
it is possible.

And in my opinion, if some user will want the printing font to be
different from the screen font (I don't believe that this will
happen), we can add the "font" key to the "gschem.printing" group
which will override the same setting in the "gschem" group.

As for the patch, I'm in doubt only what gschem group name should
be used in the config file ("gschem.common"?).