On Ven 22 avril 2005 13:00, Johan Vromans a �crit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> They are used by professionals - most fonts used in magazines are >> Type 1 fonts. I'm not a typesetter; but to my knowledge these fonts >> are used because they look better. > > How a font looks is a matter of font design, not of technology. > PostScript Type 1 technology has been around for some 25 years now, > and many professions fonts have been designed and implemented as > Type 1 fonts. > > TrueType is an implementation technique of more recent date. And > nowadays there's OTF (Open Type Font) that tries to combine the > strenghts of Type1 and TTF. > > Profession font design tools can usually produce a font using Type 1, > TTF or OTF, all of equal quality. Type 1 fonts in theory could look a little better than TrueType and OpenType ones (they allow more complex curves - the TTF people decided this complexity was not worth it nor was it used in practice). I defy anyone to distinguish between printed Type1 & TTF/OTP versions of the same font (and the TTF/OTF format as lots of advantages on the Type1 like better character coverage support) The reason professionnals used and still use Type1 is it was pushed by Adobe. This resulted in more Type1 fonts released than TTF ones. OTOH windows support for Type1 was and still is piss-poor, so any font with a significant userbase is also released as TTF/OTF. Type 1 is a dead end today - TTF/OTF won the format war. -- Nicolas Mailhot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
