Subject: Re: UNIX & Fonts -- the big view
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 22:06:44 CDT
At 6:47 PM -0500 4/29/00, Justin Bradford wrote:
> > - selecting only one type to support, looking at quality, but also at
>> being supported by X (e.g. postscript fonts (?))
>
>I don't see a reason to only support one type. New X implementations
>support TrueType. And while, Type1 (postscript) is a good format, I
>believe there are some problems with Unicode mapping and use in CJK
>languages (as it's glyph-based). Also, the hinting mechanism is not as
>good as TrueType's.
That's why the new OpenType format (<>) courtesy of Adobe,
Microsoft and Apple, is the future of font formats as it addresses
the current limitations of both TrueType and Type 1, while providing
backward compatibility.
>However, Type1 rendering libraries, search for t1lib.
T1lib is at
<http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ini/PEOPLE/rmz/t1lib/t1lib.html>
and FreeType (for TrueType rendering) is at
<http://www.freetype.org/old_index.htm>. You might also want to
check out VFLib at <http://TypeHack.aial.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/VFlib/>.
Leonard
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