Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KP> Let's just rip the bitmap scaler out once and for all. > > If we do that (and I have no objection), we should encourage all > distributions to provide scalable fonts for the Adobe base-14. > > The necessary font files are available with Ghostscript 6, and are > already included in most distributions. Debian already makes them > available to the X server.
SuSE makes these available to the X server as well. We have also added :unscaled to all directories containing bitmap fonts. This caused a few problems with some applications who insisted on trying to scale bitmap fonts[1], but mostly it is an improvement. Footnotes: [1] e.g. Gimp. Gimp could do anti-aliasing for bitmap fonts by requesting them in an extremely big size first from the X-server and then calculating the anti-aliased glyph for the size desired by the users. This didn't work with :unscaled anymore, therefore I disabled it and made anti-aliasing work only with 'real' scalable fonts. xfig and dia also had some problems with :unscaled which I could fix by making them use the Ghostscript fonts instead of the -adobe-* bitmap fonts. -- Mike Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
