On Wednesday 21 August 2002 8:12 pm, Brian Stell wrote: | Markus Kuhn wrote: | > ... | > I spent an hour yesterday reading the OpenType spec on | > | > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/opentype/ | > | > in order to decide whether I should write a BDF to OpenType converter | > and add it to the ucs-fonts package, to get away from PCF. I'm still | > undecided for two reasons: | > | > - TrueType and OpenType very clearly were designed and intended | > as outline fonts, and the ability to add bitmaps was meant as | > an optional add-on for those situations where hinting does not | > lead to acceptable results. | | At first I thought the idea of wrapping the old X bitmap fonts in | a Truetype/Opentype font seemed like a good idea as. With more | thought I've become reluctant as it's likely that there will be | lots of bumps in that road and bitmap fonts in any form are not | much help for printing.
You are right about printing. But lt's think about *storage & distribution*. If font takes 70% less of disk space (when stored as TTF or OTF embedded bitmap) - than you can save disk space on end-users computers. And XF font packages (whcih consist mostly of bitmaps) are somewhat 20MB in size at a moment :-( -- 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
