Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:15:30AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
BA> But the pfaedit docs say that "PfaEdit will degrade the appearance
BA> of most truetype fonts" with the exception being those that are not
BA> hinted at all.
Aha, that is why Valek had to manually adjust hinting. Well, this means
that pfaedit developers need our help to solve this problem, doesn't it?
DB>> Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1
DB>> altogether?
BA> Portability.
Can you elaborate? Which of Debian-supported platforms to not have Type1
fonts support, and why?
As for quality of X Type1 rasterizer, I believe that it is a temporary
problem. At least one Type1 renderer, gv, has no problems with visual
quality, so this is not a fundamental flaw, just another challenge.
--
Dmitry Borodaenko
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