Around 19 o'clock on Aug 20, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> 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. Fontconfig doesn't isolate the program from the vageries of font formats, the issue is that FreeType exposes a uniform API for all underlying formats, among them PCF and FNT which are both bitmap formats. The application cannot see what the format is, and must probe the returned FT_Face object for it's capabilities. I would also like to see FreeType provide the ability to scale bitmaps; with anti-aliasing, the results can be usable and are often more legible than poorly hinted outlines. Brian Stell did this in Mozilla when running directly on top of FreeType to satisfy requests from Han language users. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
