Re: TECH: Russian handwriting font
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 4, 2006, 21:43 |
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On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:34:44 -0400, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
wrote:
> On my Linux machine, the Postscript fonts for Century Schoolbook L [URW]
> uses handwritten glyphs when italicized, and printed glyphs when
> non-italic. AFAIK, this font should be free (in the Open Source sense).
> However, it's a Postscript font and not TTF, so if you're on Windows
> this probably doesn't help you.
It may surprise you to know this, but XP and 2k3 (and I think a version or
two earlier than that) have Type 1 (and maybe Type 3?) font support built
in. Examining the history of OpenType and TrueType may shed light on why,
for the curious.
Ever since Windows 3.11 there has been a renderer available from Adobe for
Windows for free. For XP, it simply adds a little functionality to the
built-in renderer.
I *think* the built-in Postscript font renderer in Vista will have 100%
functionality, but there's a clear technology-lead movement towards
selling OpenType.
Paul
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