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Re: [Freetype] Re: [Render] Arial ttf - bad rendering of some glyphs
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Antoine Leca |
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Re: [Freetype] Re: [Render] Arial ttf - bad rendering of some glyphs |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:04:53 +0200 |
Hi,
Vadim Plessky wrote:
>
[Visual TrueType]
> Didn't know that MS still makes some programs available for free (not
> counting MS IE)
Well, Microsoft Typography is a group inside Microsoft which appear to
function in a slight different way as the main ones (such as Office).
In particular, they are not under heavy marketing pressure, which
means:
1) you (I mean, anyone) can access easily the developper, rather than
the marketing guy which is authorized to (eventually) talk to the
real developper; as a result, we have been able to solve a number of
issues regarding Microsoft's implementation, particularly in the
Open Type area (talk with Werner !)
2) they can choose the business model; since the audience is limited
(font developpers, mainly), and since the seeked objective is clearly
to extend as far as possible the use of TrueType and derivatives
(to extend the power of Windows, clearly), they choose to give their
products for free as far as possible (but they obviously retain
the copyright, this is very different from OpenSource, of course).
> Where I can find info on this RoyalT?
<URL:http://fonts.apple.com/Tools>
This is Apple's original outine editor; it is now obsolete, no longer
supported, and does not work with recent Macs.
And of course, it does require a Mac to work!
Antoine
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