Re: [RFC] moving translations off sheets ?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Le dim, jun 10, 2001, à 08:44:59 -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
> 
>> I would add one thing, most likely to 0.90, namely optional use of the
>> freetype library.  While there are other areas where I have "wouldn't it
>> be neat" ideas, fonts is a "this currently sucks" area.  Though it is
>> very quiet about it, FreeType does seem to handle UniCode fonts.
> 
> IIRC, you did mention that FreeType was able to give a Postscript
> representation of fonts it uses, didn't you ? Also, FreeType would give
> us rotated text, is this right ? Then in my book it's a
> "severity=enhancement", "priority=high" bug :-) (yes, I do think we
> should use Bugzilla to record this kind of ideas: I hope this doesn't
> clutter too much James' Inbox <grin/>)

Yes, it will convert to Type1, yes, it will give us the font info rather
than just the bitmaps, yes, it will do rotation, and yes, it will even do
antialiasing.  Priority pretty damn high.

I would like to do something similar to XFigs choice between TeX fonts and
other fonts.  Not that I'll do TeX support right now, but just set up the
machinery to have differents sets to choose from (e.g. All, PostScript,
TrueType, TeX...). 

-Lars

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