On Tuesday 20 August 2002 6:07 pm, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: | Kaixo! | | On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:44:13PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote: | > | You should also decide on an extenson name other than .ttf, to avoid | > | that those bitmap only ttf files get confused wwith real scalable | > | fonts by people out there, otherwise there would be a lot of bad | > | consequences. | > | > It seems to me that .ttf extension is o.k. for such fonts. | | I disagree. | Or have you tested with all programs that use TTF fonts directly, and | tested also in other operating systems (Windows, MacOS, BeOS,...) and | other graphical environments (like Berlin) that those fonts will work | and won't break anything ?
I don't have Berlin installed, and do not own Mac, but I indeed tested fonts from http://jhcloos.com/fonts/bdfttf/tests/ (URL posted by "James H. Cloos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) in Windows. 'ttfext' utility from MS correctly indetifies those fonts as TrueType fonts, and displayes all properties for them. And it says that font has embedded bidmaps. Unfortunately, I was not able to get sample page rendered for those font s- but I guess it's a Microsoft bug :-) On the other hand, ftview (from FT 2.1.1) correctly displays bitmap Courier and Helvetcia at 8pt, 10pt, 12pt and 18pt - for *TrueType* font. For OpenType - ftview displays nothing. And I guess here that it's either FreeType bug (ftview bug), or PfaEdit bug (which exported something incorrectly...) | | I'm afraid that a vast majority of programs and OS currently using TTF | simple expect them to always have scalable glyphs; what will happen | if one of such programs tries to use a bitmap only font for displaying | at a size for xhich there are no bitmaps embedded ? I think that we speak now about XFree86 running on Linux/FreeBSD. While it's nice to make fonts compatible with other OSes, I doubt that we can fix MS Windows or MacOS or Adobe bugs. | | > But indeed Qt3/KDE3 and GNOME2/GTK2 should be patched/tested against | > such fonts. | | There are a lot of utilities out there that use directly TTFs; from | little utilities creating images for web counters, to programs doing | 3D rendering of text,... and don't forget also other non-X11 environments; | very bad press will happen if fonts are disseminated that cause problems | (and they probably will be disseminated if people think they are just | normal TTF fonts). | | So, using a different extension name will solve a lot of trouble. If you think that people will take .ttf from XFree86 and install on Windows, and than complain that *your fonts do not work* - than I agree with you. ButI doubt that ordinar Windows user will install XFree86 fonts on its machine (Windoze). Usually opposite process happens :-) -- 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
