Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
> Of course....Actually, I see some difference between TTF fonts which
> most common use are desktop environments and Type1 fonts, which use is
> more specialized

>From a user point of view, TTF and Type1 fonts are essentially the same;
they both work well for typical desktop use in debian.

[Maybe in the past there were differences due to e.g. the different
hinting strategies, but these days freetype seems to handle both equally
well.  I don't know whether windows/macos are similarly advanced.]

-Miles
-- 
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.