> Alejandro wrote: > Accurate rendering of strokes with different weights requires > special techniques to get the desired effect: > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/a-closer-look-at-font-rendering/
Hi Alejandro, this is, once again, not a problem of integers or floating points. Of course you cannot produce TrueType-output with LC (I said, "apart from antialising and other effects"). You could do if you implement all these font-smoothing-, that is 'eye-tricking'-algorithms. But why should you do so? Doing this would be exactly what recently Bob S. wrote, to try to have kind of a replacement for postscript. See the last sentence in that article above: > "While most Web fonts currently on the market are TrueType-flavored, I am > expecting that the industry will largely switch to PostScript, which is the > native format nearly all type designers work in (the fonts that are easier to > produce)." 'Easier to produce' means here to use mathematical models instead of a list of smoothed raster points as properties of objects. But the output is, at the very end, once again, always a list of raster points for screen or printer. Hermann [p.s. You can have postscript fonts even on Raspberry Pi, simply use "TeX" there.] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
