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Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1)
From: |
Sebastien BARRE |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1) |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:47:53 -0400 |
Hi Vadim
At 6/20/2002 05:41 AM, Vadim Plessky wrote:
| Here is the result, for the "Nimbus Sans" and "Nimbus Mono".
| http://barre.nom.fr/temp/type1bug.gif
| Note the '1' and '4'
If you need better fonts than URW - I can send you in private mail.
Thanks. We need freely redistributable fonts, as I explained to Werner.
I'll copy and paste my moto:
We are looking for freely redistributable clone version of the
Arial/Helvetica, Times and Courier fonts (normal, bold, italic and
bold/italic faces). We spent a good amount of time searching on the net,
and we came up most of the time with incomplete fonts with no real
distribution policy. The Type1 fonts provided with XFree86 look fine, but
they are missing a couple of faces. The Ghostscript fonts looked fine too,
and URW, who contributed those to Ghostscripts years ago, was kind enough
to allow us to do the same. Now this hinting problem is an issue, sadly.
| >I just want to add that you should have the bytecode interpreter
| >enabled. For patent reasons, it is disabled by default.
|
| It does not solve the pb either.
Of course this will not solve problem, as you are using it with PostScript
font! You will notice difference with TTF only!
I think you did not read my first post carefully :), I stated that I tested
both Type1 and TTF version of these fonts, and posted a screenshot for each
one of them What I said above is that enabling the interpreter did not
solve this issue : I implied TTF, but I did not bother reposting a
screenshot since it was the same rendering artefacts (and we are not going
to enable the bytecode interpreter anyway).
Real problem with URW fonts that they have bad quality of *hinting*.
I was thinking to enhance contours for those fonts, re-hint them and
distribute under different name. But so far I was short on time and haven't
completed this (but started!).
Thanks. Sadly, we do not have those ressources either.
- Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others'), (continued)
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Sebastien BARRE, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Sebastien BARRE, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Vadim Plessky, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Vadim Plessky, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1),
Sebastien BARRE <=
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Vadim Plessky, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), George Williams, 2002/06/20
Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Sebastien BARRE, 2002/06/19