Re: [Devel] .afm parsing

[Vadim Plessky]

On Wednesday 05 June 2002 11:06 am, Keith Packard wrote:
|  Around 9 o'clock on Jun 5, David Turner wrote:
|  > I don't know if it's evil, but I do not necessarily think that's it's
|  > a very good idea. There are many problems with fonts that cannot be
|  > fixed by using just FreeType and FontConfig. Sorry for not giving more
|  > details right now, but I'm preparing code and an article to demonstrate
|  > this...
|
|  There certainly are a lot of problems with fonts; the part I'm trying to
|  solve with FreeType is what API is used to load data from font files into
|  applications.  For that, it seems like FreeType should be sufficient, or
|  can be made so.
|
|  On the other hand, any open source project isn't really complete until it
|  can read email.  Does FreeType have the emacs nature?

This sounds really cool!
FreeType-based frontend for imap/pop3 server - that's what we need :-)
So next time you don't understand someone (his e-mail), you turn on 
anti-aliasing first, then turn on Hinting. Than everything should be clear, 
unless it's too blurred...

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|  Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab
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