Igor Izyumin wrote:
How about fixing the font packages instead? It's not that hard to make a set of decent bitmap fonts from the TTF ones. I am pretty sure that someone could get the FontLab people (www.pyrus.com) to donate a copy or at least sell it at a reduced price. Then you could just fix the broken fonts (veryI think there is no need of FontLab. George Williams has already done
a marvellous job in pfaedit (see pfaedit package in contrib) which can already do good jobs on TTF and Type1 font editing.
Note also that Webfonts appears fine when a freetype2 with BCI interpreter
is enabled (so the version from PLF), while our due to Apple patents isn't. Note
also that BCI restrictions only applies to TTF fonts not to Type1 hinted fonts
(so a Type1 font should be preferred [OK, mozilla supports only TTF, and not
PFB, but that's another story..., OOo instead supports both]).
Apart this I think that font copyrights also protects the "glyph" design
(like for music melodies). Otherwise one can easily "clone" a font: rendering for instance a font like Verdana at an high resolution (e.g. 10000dpi), autotrace it to vectorize and produce a compatible font (bytecode instruction the TTF file could be manually added later...).
Bye.
Giuseppe.
