Font rendering strategy

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 11:38:09 UTC 2007


2007/4/29, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> Philippe Marschall escribió:
> > I don't see how the approach of Juan scales to:
> > - unicode
> I don't know if StrikeFonts are good for Unicode. If they are, I didn't
> break them. If they aren't, I didn't fix them.
> > - different fonts
> > - different font sizes
> Well,it does. Just build the bmp files and import them!

For every possible font size?!

> > - different font styles (bold / italic / bold and italic)
> Automatically derived bold looks very nice (look at my page).
> Automatically derived italics works, but doesn't look great. But it is
> possible to build the bmps and import them.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
> > But maybe I just misunderstood something.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
> > 2007/4/29, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr>:
> >> Hi guys
> >>
> >> I want to thanks andy and juan for their work!
> >> Now I need your brain and knowledge.
> >> I'm totally ignorant of font problems/challenges but
> >>
> >> How can we get the best of both works?
> >> What are the exact pros and cons in terms of:
> >>         - font
> >>         - size
> >>         - memory consumption
> >>
> >> It seems that juan work is excellent for OS independence.
> >>
> >> Stef
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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