Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?

[山内 英敏]

Hello,

From: Brian Stell <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:05:02 -0700

> X windows CJK fonts are a very different story. CJK fonts 
> often have 2000 glyphs or more glyphs so hand tuning is a lot
> of work. Thus X windows systems tend to have a few sizes for
> CJK fonts. This is where AASB really help.

FYI:
There are free Japanese TrueType fonts, "Kochi mincho" and "Kochi Gothic".
Kochi fonts have EBLC table.

For details, please see at
http://www.on.ics.keio.ac.jp/~yasu/jp_fonts.html 
                                        (description, written in Japanse)
and
http://www.on.ics.keio.ac.jp/~yasu/linux/fonts/ (archives)

% ftdump kochi-mincho.ttf 

----- Face number: 0 -----

font name entries
   family:     Kochi Mincho
   style:      Regular
   postscript: Kochi-Mincho

font type entries
   FreeType driver: truetype
   sfnt wrapped:    yes
   type:            scalable, fixed size
   direction:       horizontal
   fixed width:     no
   glyph names:     yes
   EM size:         1024
   global BBox:     (-8,-145):(1025,880)
   ascent:          880
   descent:         -144
   text height:     1178

fixed size
   0: height 21, width 21
   1: height 20, width 20
   2: height 17, width 17
   3: height 16, width 16
   4: height 15, width 15
   5: height 14, width 14
   6: height 13, width 13
   7: height 12, width 12
   8: height 11, width 11
   9: height 10, width 10