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Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?
From: |
Marc L Cohen |
Subject: |
Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps? |
Date: |
Wed, 15 May 2002 12:48:02 -0500 |
>On Wednesday 15 May 2002 17:58, Marc L Cohen wrote:
>| >I suppose they would look great but I have never heard *any*
>| >discussions on "hand tuned anti-aliased bitmaps".
>| >
>| >To my knowledge no one has ever created them. They just do not
>| >exist.
>|
>| Actually there were some. When IBM first introduced the XGA display
>| adapter, the OS/2 driver was distributed with hand tuned anti-aliased
>| bitmap fonts for onscreen display. Support for them was lost when they
>| switched from a 16-bit display driver model to a 32-bit model.
>
>Hi Marc!
>
>Are those fonts *licensable*?
>I mean, as they are not used these days - what about making them
publically
>available with some non-restrictive license, like MIT or Artistic?
I really don't know. Probably would be, if someone in the right area
pursued it. And if they can find them. I went looking for them last month
for another reason and couldn't find them. But I'm sure someone could.
>Same qustion about some PostScript / TrueType fonts, or at least outlines
from
>them, for distribution as part of XFree86/Linux or other Open-Source
>projects.
>Linux Desktop is heavily hurted by missing good-quality fonts.
>IMO, this should be fixed, and fixed ASAP. I am trying to fix this problem
>already for some time, but some help would be vey handy ;-)
I know IBM is investing heavily in Linux and has contributed significantly
towards it. I don't know if anyone has looked at font contributions. Afriad
it is not my area, though.
>|
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- Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?, (continued)
- Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?, Vadim Plessky, 2002/05/15
- RE: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?, Pedriana, Paul, 2002/05/14
- Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?, Marc L Cohen, 2002/05/15
- RE: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?, Pedriana, Paul, 2002/05/15
- Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?,
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- RE: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?, Pedriana, Paul, 2002/05/15