Re: What's the prerenderer do?

[Akira TAGOH <tagoh gnome gr jp>]

>>>>> On 05 Mar 2002 13:09:50 -0600,
>>>>> "LC" == Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:

LC> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>>>>>>> On 04 Mar 2002 18:30:44 -0600,
>>>>>>> "LC" == Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> 
LC> Oh, I got it.  I copied one of the .pfa fonts from the
LC> /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-mincho directory into X's font
LC> path, and it turned up nicely in Dia, and printed as well.  Look at
LC> the eps file in http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause/Japanese.eps.
>> 
>> Ah, please don't use that font. it's ugly font for us :(
>> We have no Type1 font for Japanese which is useful.

LC> My apologies, my 6 weeks of Japanese 101 didn't teach me the aestetics of
LC> Japanese font design:)  I did see a number of Japanese Type 1 fonts for Mac,
LC> surely some of them are pretty?

Yeah, it probably is true. I forgot the important point. I'm
sorry. it's "We have no *free* Type1 font for Japanese which
is useful" ;)

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