Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> Miros/law Baran <baran@knm.org.pl> schrieb:
> > The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1
> > GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa Toru?ska etc.) - I think such a package
> > will be redundant.
>
> Well, tetex-base only has the afm and pfb files, along with some
> TeX-specific stuff. There are no TrueType fonts; having them might be
> worth a package.
Is it even possible to directly use TeX fonts from a high-level
GTK/whatever program without modifying the program in question? If so,
it's way too unobvious for me...
> Which sources did you use - AFAIK the original format is Metafont?
According to the papers upstream published, it was done using Metafont,
Metapost and Metatype1, and _then_ heavily processed. The available
formaps are Type1 and TTF, I used the latter.
> Did you submit your new hinting to the upstream authors at gust.or.pl?
Well, you're overestimating my part. What I did was _removing_ the
existing hinting, as it's worse than no hints at all.
I did attempt improving the upstream hinting, however, I noticed that
simply letting FontForge autohint it gives astonishing results (mostly
for the Regular and Bold variants). For example, the "e" glyph is a tiny
bit below the line, makes the original hints put the lowest part a pixel
lower than it's the case for most other letters. FontForge can
automatically correct this -- and so does FreeType's autohinter. It may
be a coincidence that autohinting works so well here, or perhaps simply
Poltawski did a very good job.
GUST provides a number of other fonts, but the only other original one is
Aktykwa Torunska. It doesn't look as good on the screen, however (but
it's not bad either). Both fonts share the general resemblance, and the
latter one has much wider charset coverage. Perhaps it may be a good idea
to provide both in this package... your call.
Anyway, a scientific poll conducted on three people proved that Antykwa
Poltawskiego looks "much better" that Bitstream Vera. IMO they're right
:p and good fonts are valuable, thus this ITP.
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Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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