Re: Font uglification after apt-get upgrade EXPLAINED
On Thu, 8 May 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 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.
Would you agree with me that bad support of Type1 sucks or am I just
influenced by firms providing proprietary stuff?
(I just want to know - not that I would have a solution for the problem.)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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