Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Andy's font

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 06:35, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2003 19:27, Andy wrote:
> > > Looks like it works just fine. Screenshots (no anti-aliaising, I think)
> > > at
> > >
> > > http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/screenshots/andy.png
> > > http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/screenshots/andy.jpg
> >
> > Thanks for that, It is really great to see the font in real use.
> >
> > Actually, I am a bit disappointed in the display. To me it looks like just
> > another Bengali Font and I was hoping it might look a bit different.
> 
> Well, what exactly do you mean ? Different how ?
> 
> > How does the legibility of this font compare to the others? And how about
> > the glyph size? It looks as if there are some other problems that I am
> > going to have to work on too.
> 
> Well, this display doesn't have anti-aliaising on, and that might improve 
> things a bit (it definitely does on Windows for the other fonts I have 
> tried). I'll try to get a screenshot with anti-aliaising over the weekend. 
> The slants do seem to be a bit thin in many glyphs. Could that be due to 
> hints not being used on my display ?

Could you send the font to me - I have 
1. Mozilla with antialiasing enabled
2. The truetype hinter enabled in Freetype

So that should make a difference.
-cheers-
sdg

PS: btw, Andy, if your list of commercial packages include RedHat Linux,
etc, GPL won't be able to do anything to prevent the font from included
in those.