Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts
introduced by M$. They are of lower quality.
Frank
Is it beneficial to build both of them into an xorg installation or is
that a waste?
- Grant
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:32 -0800, Grant wrote:
Are the USE flags
Depends on if you need some font(s) that are only in the M$ list.
quality depends mostly on size capabilities of the intended output
device...
rgh
Grant wrote:
Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts
introduced by M$. They are of lower quality.
Frank
Is it
Depends on if you need some font(s) that are only in the M$ list.
quality depends mostly on size capabilities of the intended output
device...
rgh
Has anyone compared truetype and type1 fonts rendered on something
comparable to a 15 LCD?
- Grant
Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts
Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts
introduced by M$. They are of lower quality.
Frank
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:32 -0800, Grant wrote:
Are the USE flags 'truetype-fonts' and 'type1-fonts' in xorg-x11 meant
to be substitutes for each other? I'm running the xfs
On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:04, Frank Schafer wrote:
Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts
introduced by M$. They are of lower quality.
IIRC, TrueType was developed by Apple, not Microsoft.
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Nobody never said, that M$ did develop something. ... they introduce ;)
F.
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:22 -0800, John Myers wrote:
On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:04, Frank Schafer wrote:
Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts
introduced by M$. They are of lower quality.
Are the USE flags 'truetype-fonts' and 'type1-fonts' in xorg-x11 meant
to be substitutes for each other? I'm running the xfs font server,
and I know I'm supposed to keep my installed fonts down to those I
want.
- Grant
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