Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2002 17:17 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >Does anyone know of a means of accessing the open type fonts, for example > >those bundled with Win 2000. Is there a way linux users can access 'rich' > >fonts, like Hoefler text that come with Macs?
I'm just reading a book on (not only) this subject -- "Die PostScript & PDF-Bibel", 2nd edition, PDFlib -- but font handling is far above my head... I read the book at work, I write this mail at home... I understand that OpenType fonts... -- use Unicode numbers internally (but TrueType should do so, too) -- can hold glyphs with Type-1- (OTF) *or* TrueType-curves (TTF) -- with TT-curves should behave like normal TT-Fonts, at least on Windows -- can hold thousands of glyphs (maybe a problem with TeX and its 256-char-fonts?) -- need some help by the OS: you need >Win2k, MacOS X or FreeType2 for X, at least for displaying -- use the same file format on all OSes (no special Mac fonts, no resource fork!) HTH Gr��lis vom Hraban!
