Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:36:42PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> Actually, I don't see why we should use TrueType fonts instead of Type1
> fonts. There is a set of excellent Type1 fonts from URW included in
> gsfonts package under GPL; there is an extension of these fonts with
> Cyrillic glyphs by Valek Filippov (ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/README),
> also under GPL, and soon to be included into gsfonts; Valek also said
> that he successfully converted URW fonts to TrueType, using pfaedit btw.
But the pfaedit docs say that "PfaEdit will degrade the appearance of most
truetype fonts" with the exception being those that are not hinted at all.
> Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1
> altogether?
Portability.
Ben
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