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Re: Arial looks different in Win7 and Wine
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Peter Grandi |
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Re: Arial looks different in Win7 and Wine |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:00:14 +0100 |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:00:14 +0100 |
> [ ...] So, as soon as I would use the original MS Arial font,
> I would also have the original Microsoft glyph?
Mostly, to be more precise you have the original Microsoft glyph
*description*, this is rasterized by the glyph-renderer,
different ones can result in slightly different glyphs.
> Are these rendering DLLs (you mentioned) needed -only for
> "Simple rasterization without anti-aliasing" or -only for
> "Rasterization with anti-aliasing" or -are "these rendering
> DLLs" needed for both "Simple rasterization without
> anti-aliasing" and "Rasterization with anti-aliasing"
These are done by glyph-rendering libraries (e.g. FreeType etc.)
which are invoked by the text-rendering libraries (e.g. under
GNU/Linux Pango/Cairo or HarfBuzz etc.).
There is more context here:
http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxFonts.html
Dealing with fonts is not simple.