> I have saved them and going back and forth between the two files. As they > are not the identical size, seeing the real differences is a bit hard. > Also the font is acually too small to really nitice the difference, unless > you indeed look at first one and then the other.
No, if you make everything 20mm high, you never see any difference in rendering because there are so much more pixel per letter height to render the glyph. The issue always is how to render fonts readable at small sizes. I have to agree with HPJ, the rendering in https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=56884&action=view is downright crappy compared to https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=56885&action=view In the first, word parts to both sides of the "e" look disjointed, worse, the "e" looks like it's falling over towards the left, or in other words, is rotated CCW by 10° - see "B e arb". Yuck. Typographically, you want letters of the same word to be horizontally visually equidistant (ligatures here are 1 letter by themselves), because it improves readability. This has nothing to do with "rn" looking the same as "m" - that's failure to maintain minimum separation between letters. The most serious problem by far for me is the new rendering thing in the ghostscript 8.x x11 device, which is downright useless for low 8.x and not nearly acceptable for the current 8.x, compared with 7.07. http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688496 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140100 (Ouch, need to get back to that.) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
