On Friday 12 October 2001 16:59, Sergej Malinovski wrote: | Vadim Plessky wrote: | > Before continuing this thread, and making any suggestions further, | > please explain what experience with fonts you have. | | Heh, that depends on how you define experience, and on the type of | fonts you have in mind.
Under "good font", I understand MS/Monotype Arial and Times New Roman TrueType fonts, Adobe Nueva and Minion (BTW, Minion is very close to "excellent", 4.5 balls from 5) Under "excellent" font, I understand "Linotype Palatino" (5 balls, that's it!) Unfortunately, I don't have other Linotype/B&S fonts, so can't tell wether *all* font from Linotype/B&S are of such good quality. | | > What I have seen from all your posts that you just don't understand | > what you are speaking about. | | Well, I could say something along these line to you, but such | statements won't take us anywhere... If you want discuss something, use | good arguments instead of broad generalisations like the one you just | made. It's a good way to not argue my valid points in my last reply, | though. | | If I don't understand what I talking about, why cannot you share you | wisdom with me and the other scholars on this list? If you really have | a grip on all font things, can we see your works that we can learn | from? Have you made any great fonts? What experience do *you* have? >From the work which I did recently and what I could make public, you can check my KDE themes (both initial release and latest "KDE mini-Themes") Note that I did "KDE mini-Themes" in response to IBM KDE Themes Contest results, and consider them as some kind of "joke". As about fonts - I was involved in font development in 1991-1993, mostly it was PostScript-oriented (T1). I was *not doing any fonts (outlines)* at that time, but was speaking to designers, asking questions, learning, etc. Indeed, I am not quite familiar with Type1 hinting, looked through TrueType hinting but found it too complex and decided that it [TT] doesn't worth my (expensive) time. I did manual hinting for several fonts I have, but as FreeType 2.0.4 doesn't support native PS Type1 hnts, I decided postpone everything till the moment it can support. David Turner recently (couple of days ago) released FT branch with support for PS auto-hinter which will evolve ionto FT 2.0.6. I plan to test it (when snapshot available) and see how good FT can render glyphs with native PS Type1 hints. If quality is good, may be, I will release some fonts. No idea, though, what kind of license it will be. For example, I think that URW fonts (part of GS) are of average quality but have some potential. May be, I will releae improved version of them (Latin-only). As these fonts are under GPL, my fonts wil be under GPL as well. It can be, indeed, that I will *buy* (for myself) license for some good font(s), which will include Cyrillic (which is required for my native language, Russian). Most likely, I will make such font "freely available for personal use but not *distributable* for free". So, it will be some kind of AFPL-like license GhostScript guys have for commercial GS version, or QT-like license for commercial version of QT. Nut I made no decision on it (yet). On top of KDE project (which can benefit from good fonts, especially KOffice and Konqueror), the only other visible candidate [program which needs good fonts] is OpenOffice/StarOffice. I haven't settled my attitude to OO/StarOffice at a moment. StarOffice is owned by Sun, and, frankly speaking, I don't want some "big fat company" using for free work I do, especially if I did financial investment in my work. Hope I answered some of your questions . Please do not hesitate to ask more ;-) -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
