On 02/28/2017 06:08 PM, Bruce Byfield wrote: > The same argument could be used of TrueType fonts.
The days of TrueType fonts are numbered. However, OpenType support is not yet universal. :( > Why should they, when support for them remains? Support for Type 1 is, at best, spotty. > designers have invested substantially in Type 1 fonts over the years, > and this decision leaves them stranded. I fully sympathise with those that are using legacy typefaces, especially because replacing them can be very expensive. (To quote an email I received today for a typeface: MSRP US$500,000 on sale today for only US$5,000. The included fonts are so ugly, that even if they were gratis, one would be paying too much for them.) > chart of free font equivalents for proprietary fonts that I drew up about a > year ago: The difference between proprietary typefaces, and free typefaces, is that the latter usually come in only one weight, whilst the latter usually come with at least half a dozen weights. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
