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[News] [Rival] Windows Has Problems with Fonts

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Windows Has Problems with Fonts
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:46:42 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
[Since people still use some tired font FUD against Linux]

3 Examples of Bad Microsoft Word Typography

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| From the makers of Arial, here are three examples of bad typography in 
| Microsoft Word. Bad typesetting in Word finds its way into résumés, business 
| plans, research papers, government documents, even published books. These 
| small inconsistencies and imperfections may be un-noticible in small doses,  
| but paragraph-after-paragraph they stack up—resulting in ugly, 
| visually-incohesive documents. Word isn’t for professional typography work, 
| but that’s no excuse for these typography sins.     
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http://robgoodlatte.com/2007/07/24/3-examples-of-bad-microsoft-word-typography/


Related:

Visual comparison of major OS's font rendering

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| Personally I don't like ClearType at all. And looking at it
| gives me headaches. Also, Linux's myth of bad font rendering
| is finally over.
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http://mywheel.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/08/visual-comparison-of-major-oss-font-rendering/


Improving Linux font rasterization?

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| While the discussion continues it looks like that in the long term the major 
| toolkits have to get together to talk about implementing the mentioned 
| techniques. Or, as suggested by David, a initiative dedicated to bringing 
| patches upstream is launched. It could try to work with upstream on the one 
| hand, but with the distributors on the other hand - if the users see the 
| results because the distributions include the patches it might help 
| influencing the decision of upstream.      
| But there is no way of reaching perfect font rasterization with changes in 
| FreeType only. 
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/improving-linux-font-rasterization/

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