On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:22, Shuvam Misra wrote: > Among my friends is one gentleman who has > worked for fifteen years with The Economist as a graphic designer and > typographer, and has designed the font family used by that magazine > today.
yes! i have heard of him. he did this nearly a decade ago, and he created the font called 'EcoType' for the economist, and then went on to redesign the magazine as well. i would love to get in touch with him. i believe he is not settled in india. > He is an avid Mac user, he likes Linux and Unix, and says that the > Windows implementation of rendering engines, etc, is not up to the mark. correct. however, the win doze implementation of the font rendering engine has improved and excelled over the past 2 to three years, since xp and win2k. so much so that adobe's adobe type manager application is no longer required for font rendering. > He says that even Adobe's packages available on both platforms do their > job differently; the Mac version does it better, because of native > rendering engine support within the OS. > nah! for many things the applications are dependent on the OS, but with applications like indesign, the whole rendering is done inside the application, and at such a sophisticated level that i think the OS will take ages to catch up. acrobat's technology also does something similar, though far simpler and rudimentary. alas! freetype2 tnhe font rendering engine under gnulinux, and scribus as the application, are generations behind time. i strongly wish these two would get a massive overhaul by the community. in fact, the opportunity is tremendous, since they can learn from the mistakes of the past and the legacy on the propreitory platforms. it is quite exciting. > Shuvam > > PS: It's refreshing to just talk to a few people who appear to know that > there's a whole beautiful world beyond MS Word and Pagemaker when it > comes to formatted text. :) yes, and i wish more and more people could be made aware of this beauty. especially those who work in development in computers. since they are the ones who straddle us with horrid typography coded into stuff. from cellphone displays, airport terminals, traffic signs, console fonts, X11 typography, html typesetting and stylesheets . . . i always dread the next wrinkling of technology, since precedent shows that typography and aesthetics will be given another solid kick by the developers of these. :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
