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Updated And Unified Font HOWTO

Posted by timothy on from the glypical-user-interface dept.

avibrazil writes "A new Linux Font HOWTO was published with way more practical info for modern systems. The still-useful parts of the two former Font HOWTOs from TLDP were unified in this new one, to be a definitive one-stop-shop for Linux font solutions."

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  1. Re:The article in two words... by Ma�djeurtam · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a MS Fonts repository at sourceforge, i.e. they redistribute the files under the old license, like the one you are describing. I believe that one of the usual fonts misses, though (Tahoma, IIRC), because it was released later, and so never with the gentle license.

    It's a good transition solution, but I really think that we (slashdotters) should launch a project aiming at redesigning Tahoma, Georgia, Verdana, Mono, Comic, Courier New, Impact, Arial, Arial Black, Lucida and Trebuchet. It wouldn't be exactly the same fonts, but their properties (size, spacing, kerning) and looks would be equivalents to those they clone, so that interchanging them with MS's ones wouldn't break any documents / web pages.

    Of course, those new fonts would be GPL'd.

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  2. The default autohinter has gone a long way by abdulla · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just tried out the byte code interpreter rpm they have on the website and under gnome (without hinting turned off for the ranges they say, since I can't find the option). It looks a lot better with the autohinter. This is with both bitstream and microsoft fonts. If you're happy with the latest version of the autohinter, and want your fonts antialiased across the board, don't bother with the byte code interpreter.