Igor Izyumin wrote:
How about fixing the font packages instead? It's not that hard to make a
set of decent bitmap fonts from the TTF ones.
Decent bitmap fonts...Am I reading this well?
Please read a book about font technology before arguing. Bitmap fonts
typically look better than equivalent Truetypes, as long as you aren't
scaling them. You can actually embed bitmaps in TTF fonts for particular
sizes so the TTF looks nice at that size and scales well for other sizes.
Well, IMHO the problem is that native bitmapped fonts are not antialiased,
and when you go over a certain point size (let's say 12 px) the antialias
gives better readability.
_good_ fonts are hard to make and expensive to buy.
So are good programs. Yet people make free software that works quite nicely.
There are plenty of free fonts (such as those shipped with Mandrake) that just
need better hinting. That is not nearly as hard to do as making an original
font, since it's mostly mechanical work.
Any volunteer?
Bye.
Giuseppe.
