Re: [Groff] Musings on the adding of fonts

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 02:17 a.m. 28/02/2002 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > >This is not correct.  ttf2afm is part of pdftex.
> >
> > Is it? I remember having seen in the contrib directory of freetype
> > 1.x.
>
> You are probably mixing this up with ttf2tfm...

Quite probably.

> > While not as good at low resolution, type1 hinting is easier to fix
> > (can be done by hand with a dissasembler!!!), if using anti-aliasing
> > can give better results on screen that a TrueType of similar quality
> > and at high resolution output, the rasterization is not only faster
> > but faster, as the rendering takes less memory.
        ^^^^^
I meant smaller. I'm already a candidate for geriatric treatment or so it 
seems. :)

> Try FreeType's demo programs, don't activate the hinting interpreter
> (and disable autohinting also), and try anti-aliasing.  Even bad TT
> fonts will improve significantly.  This effect is not restricted to
> Type 1 fonts.

I tried them just now and you are correct. Now, I need a tool to change the 
GASP table (or add one) in the fonts I'm interested in using. Hmmmm... This 
has become too off-topic.

Now, if some one can direct me to a tool to create Type42 wrapped TrueType 
fonts that works under win32 we can justify it. (And I do need one!).


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