Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1)

[Vadim Plessky]

On Thursday 20 June 2002 4:47 pm, Sebastien BARRE wrote:
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|  >Conclusion: The problem is in the font and not in FreeType.
|
|  Conclusion: I'm back to square one. Do'h.
|
|  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.

Ther eis no such a thing as a free lunch.
If you want good fonts, and want them NOW - you should license them from one 
of commercial vendors.
If you can wait - well, may be I will have something end of this summer :-)

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|  Thanks for your help.
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