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| From | "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: New fonts for RISC OS, comments welcome |
| Date | 2012-09-14 11:22 +0100 |
| Organization | None |
| Message-ID | <52cf078590dave@davenoise.co.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (9 earlier) <ed8115ce52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <ant1217030b0=WG%@x.yz.z> <1d8820ce52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <5b84287b-3b50-4c9d-8acd-91a60648ed75@googlegroups.com> <c5bdc7ce52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> |
In article <c5bdc7ce52.martin@bach.planiverse.com>,
Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> wrote:
> > IIRC, Netsurf is actually one of the programs that CAN not only handle
> > but make use of large fonts. The tool I used for the conversions was
> > created by NetSurf team and it lists conversion of large fonts with
> > good Unicode coverage as one of its features. Given that the fonts
> > have worked for some on NetSurf with OS 4.x (and have worked for
> > everybody using 5.x who's reported back), I wonder if perhaps some of
> > the problems people might be having might stem from missing/improperly
> > installed Unicode support libraries.
> In a sense, yes, but what is behind all this is the Unicode
> FontManager, which is not part of RISC OS 4/6. The NetSurf team has
> done some excellent work to make sure that NetSurf works on RO4/6
> systems (ordinary FontManager by default) and on RO5 systems (Unicode
> FontManager). Some users have installed the RO5 FontManager on their
> RO4/6 system, which improves the behaviour of NetSurf, but that is not
> a prerequisite for running NetSurf. !ttf2f produces fonts that really
> should be used with the RO5 FontManager.
So would installing the RO5 Fontmanger on this 4.39 sort things? And is it
available separately from RO5?
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