Around 16 o'clock on Sep 29, Brian Stell wrote:
> 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. Right now, I'd like to get support for bitmaps embedded in TrueType fonts which should avoid this particular issue. I don't think too many TrueType fonts embed untuned bitmaps. > Outline generated bitmaps are not great. AA CJK fonts can be > quite usable if not as nice as the hand tuned bitmaps. The outline CJK fonts I have seen are essentially worthless without AA; at normal sizes, they are impossible for my eyes to decipher. [EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc. _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
