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.