>It's true that only some currency are associated with special symbol (Yen, >pound,...) and only one is known evrywhere (and part of Basic too). >It's true too that pff font are not very good on screen when they are very >nice on paper. Don't know why.
Vector fonts are designed for high res (printing). They contain hints to render them better at low resolutions, but this does not work equally well for all fonts (though you would be surprised about the effects of hinting, things would be much, much worse without hinting). >The main problem is the lack of anti aliasing. Wrong, supported in high colour modes. Though impossible to achieve in only four colours :-( >Also I believe that the PFF format (Correct me if I am wrong Joachim) >does not do two different renderings for small and medium to large sizes. True. >Double rendering is a common practice for both Postscript and TrueType due >to limitations of the output mediums (screens). As far as I know, Adobe never actually released the details for Postscript fonts with multiple sizes in it, though I know they exist. >In the case of PFF for speed considerations probably the rendering process >is uniform for all sizes which leads to the problems that I mentioned. Speed is not the reason. In fact, the screen fonts would render faster due to lesser complexity. As I said above, the problem is getting specs for the font format. At the time, Truetype was very badly documented. Joachim
