Hi Mike,
--- Mike FABIAN
The easiest way to disable embedded bitmaps for Japanese would be to remove the line
<string>ja</string>
in /etc/fonts/suse-pre-user.conf.
ok. (but does it disable hinting? Hinting is not good for CJK [or square] characters)
But from the feedback I got until now, most users seemed to like the embedded bitmaps, therefore I enabled them by default. But not many users gave feedback at all about this subject.
hm.
Personally I think that the embedded bitmaps are usually less beautiful but better readable.
right.
And I guess that a font designer who includes embedded bitmaps in his fonts does this because he believes they give better results than the outlines. If the font designer doesn't think so, why include embedded bitmaps at all?
MS Windows 9x can't show antialiased outlines, so MS fonts/IPA fonts include embedded bitmaps to show small characters clearly. But freetype2 shows outlines beautifully, so I think outlines are better than bitmaps. Sazanami fonts also include bitmaps, but they are originally created for console. Someone merged them into Sazanami fonts.
But if most users like the outlines better, we could of course change the default. The problem is that it seems to be highly subjective which rendering style is best.
We can't choose the most beautiful girl for everyone. But he can choose the best girl for himself. :-)
I want to disable embedded bitmaps for Japanese by default only if we are *sure* that the majority of users prefers the outlines. How to find out?
suse-linux-ja? Fedora and Mandriva don't use embedded bitmaps for Japanese. Japanese fedora developers chose outlines. Thanks. Hirosi __________________________________ Save the earth http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ondanka/