----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:56:31 +0200 From: Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomas Frydrych" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: screenshot of ugly fonts Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <3CF50F27.14886.36BC1E@localhost> References: <3CF3B6A1.30501.322932@localhost> <3CF50F27.14886.36BC1E@localhost> Organization: University of Cape Town X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
hi, sorry, i'm not on the list anymore, but you can post this email if you want! > > ok, i have the M$ fonts working now... but the new files take up > > 14MB!!!!! thats massive! > The fonts themselves can be just symlinks, that will cut it down to > about 7MB. If you use some other ttf fonts that only support a small > charset, such as Latin1, everything will be much smaller, the MS fonts > contain around 1200 glyphs each. i have them as symlinks! its the files abiword creates make 14MB. > > will there ever be support for using simply > > symlinked ttf's _alone_ (without the other files), > possibly, it is question of processing speed vs. storage. The whole > font management is going to be completely changed in any case. cool! thanks! Sam -- Violence is a sword that has no handle -- you have to hold the blade. ----- End forwarded message -----
