On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:40 pm, Danny Tholen wrote: > On Thursday 28 November 2002 20:01, Igor Izyumin wrote: > > There are two key differences: > > 1. Mandrake does not make Crossover. Codeweavers does. They are taking > > most of the risk here. It's a much smaller risk for Mandrake than > > including a script that auto-installs fonts. > > Strange reasoning. Mandrake provides crossover and the script. The script > was made by Ben. So what is the difference? (Hell, if you think it is > because of it is a company, Ben could start one just for holding the > copyright of the script). > > > 2. Crossover does not install these fonts transparently. They still > > present the click-wrap in its original form, and they could argue that > > it's the user's responsibility to make sure they have a right to use that > > piece of software. > > Ok, shall I submit a patch so that the files are unpacked trough a call to > wine to unzip the files? Including nice popup EULA? Would that make > everybody happy? > > > How about fixing the font packages instead? It's not that hard to make a > > set of decent bitmap fonts from the TTF ones. > > Decent bitmap fonts...Am I reading this well?
Please read a book about font technology before arguing. Bitmap fonts typically look better than equivalent Truetypes, as long as you aren't scaling them. You can actually embed bitmaps in TTF fonts for particular sizes so the TTF looks nice at that size and scales well for other sizes. > _good_ fonts are hard to make and expensive to buy. So are good programs. Yet people make free software that works quite nicely. There are plenty of free fonts (such as those shipped with Mandrake) that just need better hinting. That is not nearly as hard to do as making an original font, since it's mostly mechanical work. -- -- Igor
