- From: Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 01:02:28 +0100
- To: www-font@w3.org
At 2:40 PM -0700 2/9/98, Michael Emmel wrote: >I dont care about specialty fonts just for example Courier Roman Helvitica etc >The 10 - 12 fonts that are used in 99% of computer applications. >Plus a basic rendering engine. If you are writing a platform with that attitude, I'm not sure whether I'm looking forward to it. >YOU DONT NEED OPENTYPE, TYPE 1, TRUETYPE, ETC FILE FORMATS!!!!! Louder, louder! Of course you don't *need* those. It's just that: - it's very hard to write a good font scaler - it's very hard to define your font format so that it is going to be efficient (compact) - it's very hard to make fonts for any new format (ie. writing a font editor is hard too) - it's not going to change anything regarding the "Freedom for Fonts" Other than that, Java implementations of TT and T1 scalers should be interesting. A new java based font system should be *very* interesting since you could make fonts do things that other fonts can't(tm). I just hope it will be implemented by someone who can spell Helvetica. Just . . . . . new email address: just@letterror.com
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