Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1)

[Sebastien BARRE]

Hi Vadim

At 6/20/2002 05:41 AM, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> | Here is the result, for the "Nimbus Sans" and "Nimbus Mono".
> |  http://barre.nom.fr/temp/type1bug.gif
> |  Note the '1' and '4'
>
> If you need better fonts than URW - I can send you in private mail.

Thanks. We need freely redistributable fonts, as I explained to Werner. 
I'll copy and paste my moto:
We are looking for freely redistributable clone version of the 
Arial/Helvetica, Times and Courier fonts (normal, bold, italic and 
bold/italic faces). We spent a good amount of time searching on the net, 
and we came up most of the time with incomplete fonts with no real 
distribution policy. The Type1 fonts provided with XFree86 look fine, but 
they are missing a couple of faces. The Ghostscript fonts looked fine too, 
and URW, who contributed those to Ghostscripts years ago, was kind enough 
to allow us to do the same. Now this hinting problem is an issue, sadly.

| >I just want to add that you should have the bytecode interpreter
> |  >enabled.  For patent reasons, it is disabled by default.
> |
> |  It does not solve the pb either.
>
> Of course this will not solve problem, as you are using it with PostScript
> font! You will notice difference with TTF only!

I think you did not read my first post carefully :), I stated that I tested 
both Type1 and TTF version of these fonts, and posted a screenshot for each 
one of them What I said above is that enabling the interpreter did not 
solve this issue : I implied TTF, but I did not bother reposting a 
screenshot since it was the same rendering artefacts (and we are not going 
to enable the bytecode interpreter anyway).

> Real problem with URW fonts that they have bad quality of *hinting*.
> I was thinking to enhance contours for those fonts, re-hint  them and
> distribute under different name. But so far I was short on time and haven't
> completed this (but started!).

Thanks. Sadly, we do not have those ressources either.