installing more fonts by default for better international coverage

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 12:58:10 UTC 2007


On 23/08/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:

> IMHO:
> - bitmap fonts should be optional except for languages like chinese who
> really want them
> - hardware has been using a ~100doi resolution for years. Drop the 75dpi
> variant

Except for all those people with ~85dpi LCD panels who don't want the
fonts to be too big? :)

Seriously, for *some* purposes, a well tuned bitmap can look far
better than something rendered from a vector font at small sizes.
Especially with e.g. oriental glyphs.




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