On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:06:41AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > If these fonts look fine in other contexts, it may really be the Type1
> > rasterizer in XFree86 that is the culprit. No one has maintained it for
> > years, and it is not even feature-complete ("Beziers this big not yet
> > supported").
> This is a real shame. You might upstream best. Do you think it would help
> out
> if we would file a bug report which you could foreward upstream or is there
> just
> no interest. If upstream does not care about Type1 fonts I guess they did
> not noticed recent desktop movements.The Type1 rasterizer goes way back (was donated by someone to the X Consortium, IIRC) and was not originated by XFree86. It's there because of inertia. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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