On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:15:30AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: BA> But the pfaedit docs say that "PfaEdit will degrade the appearance BA> of most truetype fonts" with the exception being those that are not BA> hinted at all.
Aha, that is why Valek had to manually adjust hinting. Well, this means that pfaedit developers need our help to solve this problem, doesn't it? DB>> Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1 DB>> altogether? BA> Portability. Can you elaborate? Which of Debian-supported platforms to not have Type1 fonts support, and why? As for quality of X Type1 rasterizer, I believe that it is a temporary problem. At least one Type1 renderer, gv, has no problems with visual quality, so this is not a fundamental flaw, just another challenge. -- Dmitry Borodaenko