On 29.07.2009, at 21:10, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Nikolay Suslovnsuslovi@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Bert!
If it is not really hard to ship now the fonts right in the image, please, could you point, how to do that? The size of the image is much less critical then foreign language barrier right now. May be, have image's choice: the default for latin1 languages and another big one with additional fonts (Cyrillic etc. support)?
Several readily available Free Truetype fonts include Latin and Cyrillic. For example,
Bookman Uralic Century Schoolbook Deja Vu FreeFont Gentium Liberation Nimbus Roman Uralic Schoolbook Uralic URW Bookman, Chancery, Gothic, Palladio
We're currently using Bitstream Vera, so to preserve font metrics we should go with a derivative of that. I was thinking of DejaVu LGC.
Each of these font files is less than 1 MB in size. The big fonts are those that include Han characters for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
TTF files use a rather space-efficient delta coding for glyph shapes. When importing the font into the Squeak image, this is expanded to discreet bezier curves, which is the format our vector renderer understands natively.
- Bert -