Re: [Freetype] Re: [Render] Arial ttf - bad rendering of some glyphs

[Vadim Plessky]

On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:04, Antoine Leca wrote:
|   Vadim Plessky wrote:
|   > Didn't know that MS still makes some programs available for free (not
|   > counting MS IE)
|
|   Well, Microsoft Typography is a group inside Microsoft which appear to
|   function in a slight different way as the main ones (such as Office).
|   In particular, they are not under heavy marketing pressure, which
|   means:

I see...

|   1) you (I mean, anyone) can access easily the developper, rather than
|     the marketing guy which is authorized to (eventually) talk to the
|     real developper; as a result, we have been able to solve a number of
|     issues regarding Microsoft's implementation, particularly in the
|     Open Type area (talk with Werner !)

Do you know name of person responsible for hinting?

|
|   2) they can choose the business model; since the audience is limited
|     (font developpers, mainly), and since the seeked objective is clearly
|     to extend as far as possible the use of TrueType and derivatives
|     (to extend the power of Windows, clearly), they choose to give their
|     products for free as far as possible (but they obviously retain
|     the copyright, this is very different from OpenSource, of course).

So, we can, generally speaking, send them bug report for hints in Arial?
(see my original mail)
I will be more than happy if Arial and Times New Roman can be fixed in this 
way.

I was looking on AtheOS screenshots yesterday (after Slashdot announce of new 
version of Atheos, with Konqueror port)
And found that AtheOS (which uses FT2) also makes some hinting bugs visible.
At the same time, I am rather happy with quality of outlines & hints in 
Linotype Palatino, and I even use Palatino now for Menus in KDE2 :-)
 
|
|   Antoine

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