Oh yeah, very nice. IMO, this looks much better than the current method even without kerning. What would be necessary to support kerning as well?
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 10:44, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > The fake italics look bad when done on aa fonts. I am thinking of > implementing real italics. This would be really easy code-wise, except that > I am not sure it's possible to do real italics without decent kerning > without the result looking really ugly--currently character boxes cannot > overlap. What do people think? > > I just ran PalmFontConv on an italic font, and plugged it into Plucker as a > default font. A screenshot of the results are at: > http://prussfamily.us/italic.png and the font itself (generated for both OS5 > and Sony OS4) is at http://prussfamily.us/italicUtopia.prc . My opinion is > that it looks significantly better than the standard fake italics, even > though some character pairs like ff look quite bad. > > Alex > > -- > Dr. Alexander R. Pruss > Department of Philosophy > Georgetown University > Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > online papers and home page: www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Philosophiam discimus non ut tantum sciamus, sed ut boni efficiamur." > - Paul of Worczyn (1424) > > _______________________________________________ > plucker-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
