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Re: Linux Fonts



Thanks for the screenshot. I must say that it looks terrible. As I said before I embedded bitmaps instead of doing the hinting, and I found out from the XFree86 mailing list that its font renderer does not support embedded bitmaps. So I guess its back to the drawing (hinting) board.

Just for reference (and to prove I'm not a total hack) I posted a screenshot of Dustismo for point sizes 8-17 as displayed on a windows box.

http://www.cheapskatefonts.com/Dustismo_screenshot.jpg


Thanks,
Dustin



That was my mistake - obviously Opera likes to substitute
another font for cyrillic and greek, so these glyphs came from
some other font.

Anyway, I put a screenshot in
http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/junk/dustimo.png
I had not turned on antialiasing, which is probably responsible for
low quality of displayed glyphs (in particular, notice glyphs for l,z,n).
For comparision, see
http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/junk/lynx.png
which is the same page rendered in lynx/xterm, using default
fixed width misc-fixed-* X11 fonts.

The reason why I am so interested in missing glyphs is that there
was a discussion on debian-devel recently about lack of
free high quality variable width font. Dustimo could become
base of such a font, if it covered at least MES-2 repertoire (maybe
without Georgian and Armenian characters for the beginning).
Adding CJK characters would require much greater effort.

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