On Wednesday 21 August 2002 6:36 pm, Owen Taylor wrote: | Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Owen Taylor wrote on 2002-08-20 14:50 UTC: | > > > I'm afraid that a vast majority of programs and OS currently using | > > > TTF simple expect them to always have scalable glyphs; what will | > > > happen if one of such programs tries to use a bitmap only font for | > > > displaying at a size for xhich there are no bitmaps embedded ? | > > | > > I'm pretty sure Microsoft ships a number of .ttf files with only | > > bitmaps and no outlines with Windows... | > | > Can you name a few examples to substantiate that claim? | | I believe I'm completely wrong about it :-) | | I got confused because FreeType handles .FON files, so if you point | fontconfig at the fonts directory on your Windows partition, you get lots | of bitmap-only fonts that you have to handle. But they aren't TTF files. | | The TrueType font format is certainly extraordinarily grotty. But | it is also complete in ways that most other font formats aren't. | | (If we ever want to handle, say, bitmap Arabic fonts, then we really, | really want to be doing it using OpenType GSUB tables rather than | inventing new custom glyph encodings.) | | And widely standard. As Keith says, we can't *not* support TrueType.
Hi Owen! I completly support anything you said above. The only concern (and a major one!) I have about TrueType is *delta hint* and Apple patent issues. TrueType fonts look extremly ugly with Bytecode interpreter disabled. And AFAIK Mandrake and SuSE ship their versions of Linux with Bytecode interpreter *disabled* (in FreeType2) // don't know about RedHat, but I guess it's the same. So, you *can* support TrueType (and we *should* support it), but IMO main efforts should go to PostScript Type1 / OpenType with Adobe CFF fonts support, as it's possible to enhance rendering quality for those fonts and be patent-safe, on the other hand. | | Regards, | Owebn | _______________________________________________ | Fonts mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts Cheers, -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
