[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#495598: [ghostscript] opentypefont
Fabian Greffrath
fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Feb 8 14:32:10 UTC 2011
Another argument for converting gsfonts to truetype:
Does FontForge read in the old kerning information from fonts?
This question needs to be broken down into cases:
[...]
PostScript Type1 fonts anywhere other than the Mac.
The kerning information is not stored in a Type 1 font file.
Instead it is stored in a file with the same filename as the font file
but with the extension ".afm". When FontForge reads a PostScript font
it will check for an associated afm file, and if found will read the
kerning information from it.
From: <http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html>
I have seen many bug reports in which people complained about
improperly rendered web pages that had their prefered font set to
either Helvetica of Nimbus Sans, which means that the type1 system
fonts are selected for display. I am not sure, but I believe that the
kerning information for these fonts are not taken into account in
these cases. With truetype fonts (which have the information of both
the afm and the pfb file compiled in by fontforge) this problem should
be solved, while still preserving the original shape of the font.
Then we would only need fontconfig to select the truetype variant by
default if unsure...
- Fabian
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