> The two nearest comparable references are: > http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-firefox-render-reference.png > http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/linux-firefox-render-reference.png
Sorry, I posted the wrong links, they should be: http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-ff3-render-reference.png http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/linux-ff3-render-reference.png Linux does even better job than Vista does now! Look closely on the date on the top right corner. On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 20:34, Huan Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott, thanks for your tip. I'll try to convert them all, though it's > not a perfect solution. > > What I have done is copying all over my font library from Windows to > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows and it automagically ate up a lot of > my space. The reason that I have done that was my finding: Ubuntu 8.04 > does a very very impressive work on rendering fonts. I was really > amazed by that fact, because it was only half a year ago, I could not > use linux to read long documents because it simply hurts my eyes with > the way it rendered fonts on screen. Some of the reference renderings > are: > > http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-ie7-render-reference.png > http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-safari-render-reference.png > http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-safari-render-reference-2.png > > The two nearest comparable references are: > http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-firefox-render-reference.png > http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/linux-firefox-render-reference.png > > BTW, I would say 1000 fonts isn't a whole lot of fonts, literally. One > typeface like this one: http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html > has 6 fonts in it. Some typefaces even have like 20-ish fonts in it. > So 1000 fonts is only some two-hundreds of typefaces. > > Some of the free high-quality links that worth having a look are: > > http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/fonts/ > http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/fonts/?order=9&alltime=yes > > - Huan. > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 17:33, Scott Thatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I found this script somewhere that will use fontforge to convert a font >> to truetype. You may lose some features, but regular things like >> kerning should be preserved. There are some truetype options that do >> affect how well the font works, but I don't know off-hand what the >> defaults would be when you run this script. You could run it inside >> another script in order to automate converting all the fonts at once. >> The only problem I've seen with this approach, is that if a font >> contains ornaments that are bigger than standard letters (the Adobe Pro >> fonts often do), then OpenOffice will set it's line height much too >> high. Sometimes I've had to edit out certain glyphs to get fancy fonts >> to play nicely with OpenOffice. >> >> #!/usr/bin/fontforge >> # Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf) >> Print("Opening "+$1); >> Open($1); >> Print("Saving "+$1:r+".ttf"); >> Generate($1:r+".ttf"); >> Quit(0); >> >> By the way, the people who care about typography would give you this >> stock response when you mention 1000 fonts: >> >> If you got a package with 1000 fonts, it was either >> - Very expensive, or >> - Contains fonts of dubious quality and/or legality. >> >> Also, many fonts have EULA's that prohibit modification. Adobe is one >> exception to that rule. Their EULA is friendly toward people who need >> to modify fonts to use with things like Linux and TeX. >> >> Sorry if the above is unneeded information, but sometimes I can't help >> but mention the legalities of type, since respecting licenses is also >> important in the Open Source world. :) >> >> Scott >> >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 06:38:07PM -0500, Huan Truong wrote: >>> I have installed ~1000 OpenType fonts to my laptop. Gedit and stuff >>> worked fine and I was able to see these fonts, but lately I found out >>> that OpenOffice and Abiword do not support OpenType fonts ( >>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ#Are_OTF_fonts_supported_in_OpenOffice.org_2 >>> ). Which is crazy to me. I tried OOO 3 but OOO 3 Beta doesn't, either. >>> I wonder if any of you have any ideas to use those fonts to use in my >>> documents? I don't mind using alternatives. >>> >>> PS: After some minutes googling around, I had the confirmation from >>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=645363&page=2 . But >>> converting 1000 fonts with FontForge isn't really a choice for me. >>> It's so painful to open each of them, and save as... it may drive me >>> crazy. >>> >>> ************************************* >>> I am pretty sure AbiWord doesn't support .otf fonts. Neither does >>> OpenOffice. Both are treating this not as a bug, but as a feature >>> request which seems not to be getting top priority. This is a shame, >>> since most of the major font producers have converted over all their >>> libraries to OpenType. >>> >>> Linux itself should be able to handle the fonts through fontconfig, >>> and they should be available in Gedit and some other applications. >>> Check to see if these fonts are available in Gedit; if they are, then >>> they are properly installed but they won't be available to you in >>> AbiWord. >>> >>> A workaround is to convert the fonts to .ttf using FontForge. You will >>> lose some of the special features of OpenType (ligatures, special >>> kerning, etc.) but you should be able to use them in AbiWord and >>> OpenOffice.org. >>> ************************************* >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". >>> http://tnhh.info/ >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> with Subject: unsubscribe >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with Subject: unsubscribe >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > > > -- > "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". > http://tnhh.info/ > -- "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". http://tnhh.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
