At 05:18 μμ 4/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: >It's true that only some currency are associated with special symbol (Yen, >pound,...) and only one is known evrywhere (and part of Basic too). >It's true too that pff font are not very good on screen when they are very >nice on paper. Don't know why.
The main problem is the lack of anti aliasing. Also I believe that the PFF format (Correct me if I am wrong Joachim) does not do two different renderings for small and medium to large sizes. Double rendering is a common practice for both Postscript and TrueType due to limitations of the output mediums (screens). As far as I know only NeXT machines didn't have that problem due to their Display Postscript system. In the case of PFF for speed considerations probably the rendering process is uniform for all sizes which leads to the problems that I mentioned. >About drachme : now that I download last Andrea Carpi Euro converter I have >a nice small greek flag ;-) Make sure it has 9 stripes ;-)))) (One for each syllable of the phrase Freedom or Death ;-) (Starting and ending with blue) ;-) >Thank's for the trick You are welcome... although a lot more tricks for nice display were in my article for QL Today on "Windows-izing" ProWesS... (which is lost after my crash and has to be written again) :-( >Claude Phoebus P.S. I do not know if anyone is into linguistics or not but a long time ago I was part of a team converting the TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graeca) and TLG-Phi CD-ROMS of UCI (University of California - Irvine) to a more readable (and FREE) format. I had created many multi-accented fonts (With the full complement of Hellenistic Period accents (SIX in total!) ) and a conversion program which among other things could print texts on LaserJet and ColorJet printers (PCL). The worst part of the TLG is that UCI thinks they hold a COPYRIGHT for heaven's sakes! on texts like the Bible or the Oddyssey... With Thierry's CD ROM driver I could convert this system to the QL finally for use with the Reader or (the HTML reader I am currently writing that supports tables and colours).... Anybody Interested?
