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> However in terms of the complete end-user package, we in Free Software are
> seriously lacking high quality fonts. It doesn't matter how great the
> rest of our software is, if we don't have a large variety of high quality
> fonts people are going to complain.
>
> It appears to be one of the biggest current complaints in making about
> AbiWord VS Kword. Our fonts, being the free Type 1's look ugly. I believe
> this is because KDE take full advantage of the truetype fonts stolen off
> peoples Windows partitions. I don't know for sure. I haven't investigated.
The only dificult task related to ttf is good hinting.
Autohinted ttf versions can be easy made from free URW Type1 fonts.
Valek
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