Bug#496070: [ghostscript] opentypefont
Dear Valek,
thanks for your quick response.
Am 10.02.2011 13:34, schrieb Valek Filippov:
Unless you are going to add TrueType instructions, TTF version
generated automatically would look at best not better than Type1.
I don't know if the fault is at pango, fontconfig or libfreetype (or
anything else involved in the font rendering stack), but I have tested
myself with pango-view and the onscreen-rendering is vastly improved
if the Truetype variant is selected instead of the Type1 one. For
comparison I have posted images to the original bug report in Debian
requesting the Truetype conversions:
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496070#59>
The other reason for the Truetype variant is that cups could finally
print plain text with the original Courier, ne Nimbus Mono font. ;)
I believe there will be near no difference between SFDs I have and
ones you can save once open PFBs in Fontforge.
Generally you may be right, but I'd prefer if I could avoid this
manual disassembly and rebuild the fonts from your original sfd files.
I think it could be pre45, but can't check right now -- my main
computer still disconnected. I will reach it on weekend and reply on
that one.
Great, thank you very much in advance!
- Fabian
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