Re: font-differences



2009-01-23 klockan 12:14 skrev Juanjo Marin:
> If you are a lover of freedom, I'd recommend to use Liberation Fonts
> instead of MS Fonts.

Except that they're ugly, and not well-hinted either. At least, last time I
checked.

> "Liberation is the collective name of three TrueType font families:
> Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono. These fonts are
> metric-compatible with Monotype Corporation's Arial, Times New Roman,
> and Courier New (respectively), the most commonly used fonts on
> Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office suit" from wikipedia

PostScript (and I believe PDF as well) assumes the availability of
Helvetica, Courier, and Times, and the Liberation fonts can indeed be used
as defaults here, since they have the same metrics.

    — Wouter

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