On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:06:41AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > If these fonts look fine in other contexts, it may really be the Type1 > > rasterizer in XFree86 that is the culprit. No one has maintained it for > > years, and it is not even feature-complete ("Beziers this big not yet > > supported"). > This is a real shame. You might upstream best. Do you think it would help out > if we would file a bug report which you could foreward upstream or is there just > no interest. If upstream does not care about Type1 fonts I guess they did > not noticed recent desktop movements. The Type1 rasterizer goes way back (was donated by someone to the X Consortium, IIRC) and was not originated by XFree86. It's there because of inertia. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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