Tesla Coil wrote:
> On 20 August 2001, Terry Hancock wrote:
> > That probably ought to do it -- I'm not sure what
> > else you'd want that isn't already available.
>
> True Type Font support. Or, preferably, an
> open font specification designed with a view
> to conversion of existing TTF files--as, for
> instance, one converts existing GIFs to PNG.
Do you mean that you know True Type is not
supported by Sketch? -- I had thought that it
was, though I'm not so sure. Certainy TTF
files can be served as X-fonts, converted to
metafont format for TeX, or converted to
Type-1 for other purposes.
In general, the freetype library has allowed
TTF to be converted to most other formats
in use on Linux. The reverse is not true --
in general, you can't convert anything *into*
TTF format. That's because none of the software
supports True-Type hinting, which I'm told
is very complex.
I admit I haven't really delved into this
topic yet.
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