Kaixo! On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:50:09AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > I'm pretty sure Microsoft ships a number of .ttf files with only bitmaps and > no outlines with Windows...
And what happens when a size not covered is requested ? I find it difficult to believe that there would be ttf fonts out there with bitmaps instead of outlines for glyphs at size 80 or 120 or bigger. And if there are no outlines, neither bitmaps for those sizes, what is supposed to happen ? The low level rendering engine (freetype in our case), scale the bitmaps ? > it's nothing revolutionary and nothing > robust software doesn't have to handle already. Well, if that doesn't make problems I haven't any objection against it; but a ttf file without outlines seemed quite a new idea to me... I don't have any Windows nor MacOS etc machine to test; but I think someone with access to such OS should test, just to be sure. > And to the extent that most font handling for open-source handling goes > through FreeType and (increasingly) through fontconfig, there is really > very little difference between a .ttf file with only bitmaps, a > .ttf file with only bitmaps called something else, and a .pcf file... Yes, I agree. My concern was for programs not using fontconfig (like in other OS), or using freetype at a very low level and expecting there are always outlines; as if the bitmap only fonts cause problems with those, then bad press could follow. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.stben.be/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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