Re: What's the prerenderer do?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 05 Mar 2002, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> > > > > > On 04 Mar 2002 18:30:44 -0600,
> > > > > > "LC" == Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
>
> LC> Oh, I got it.  I copied one of the .pfa fonts from the
> LC> /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-mincho directory into X's font
> LC> path, and it turned up nicely in Dia, and printed as well.  Look at
> LC> the eps file in http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause/Japanese.eps.
>
> Ah, please don't use that font. it's ugly font for us :(
> We have no Type1 font for Japanese which is useful.

My apologies, my 6 weeks of Japanese 101 didn't teach me the aestetics of
Japanese font design:)  I did see a number of Japanese Type 1 fonts for Mac,
surely some of them are pretty?

-Lars

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