"nice fonts" [LWN.net]

"nice fonts"

Posted May 5, 2004 2:25 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

I forgot to mention... what's Jon's problem with xfig's fonts? It uses
the standard PostScript fonts. For web use, Helvetica should be fine.

Granted, the fact that it doesn't interact with the system fonts is a
disadvantage, but even OpenOffice.org has that problem.

Of course, I'm biased in the direction of creating good-looking printable
PostScript and EPS files.

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"nice fonts"

Posted May 6, 2004 20:18 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

He's looking for something that produces images for use in LWN, since that's what the grumpy editor is the editor of. This makes xfig lousy for his purposes, because it relies on something else to do high-quality rasterization for it. The problem isn't the fonts, it's the font rendering. I bet he could get pleasing results out of xfig, latex, xdvi, and a screen capture with the GIMP.