Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question

[Brian Stell]

Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> Around 11 o'clock on Sep 29, Brian Stell wrote:
> 
> > Using hand tuned bitmap fonts is a very important consideration
> > as they almost always look better than outline rendered bitmaps.
> > Many people prefer them over anti-aliased fonts at the same
> > size.
> 
> I'll fix Xft to use them; I believe it currently avoids them.  Certainly
> hand-tuned bitmaps are better for non-AA text.  And, hand-tuned bitmaps
> are certainly easier to find than high-quality TrueType fonts, which are
> needed for decent AA text.

My only word of caution here is that recently people have
been generating bitmap fonts from outline fonts and installing
them as bitmap fonts. These are at best only fair and often
are mediorce. At present I do not know how to distinguish these
automatically generated bitmaps from hand tuned bitmaps.

> For CJK, using bitmaps is even more important; the outlines generate
> illegible results at moderate sizes.

Outline generated bitmaps are not great. AA CJK fonts can be 
quite usable if not as nice as the hand tuned bitmaps.

-- 
Brian Stell
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