Oliver Wagner said,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Unless the browser had some kind of font translation table to map
>> TrueType names to Amiga equivalents. Arial->Helvetica etc.
> This doesn't gain much, though -- most of the more "interesting"
> fonts used in (X-)Windows-based web design look pretty crap when rendered
> as bitmap fonts without antialiasing and comparably low resolution.
What if the user was able to configure the transslation table, some
people have the TrueType hack installed and can use the fonts anyway.
> We considered doing something like this, and someone took the work of
> converting the complete Arial font to bitmap, in various sizes -- results
> weren't pretty at all :/
Arial is Helvetica, with the name and just enough pixels changed to
avoid copyrights, same as Triumvirate.
Neil
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