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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++.so.6 - another gcc upgrade problem?
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:33:19 +0100
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On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:47, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> The reason vector fonts are better is that they scale well.
> Bit-mapped fonts are just a bunch of pixels on a grid that are
> on or off and these make the shape of a character. They work
> well at the resolution and size they were designed for, and
> very poorly at all other settings.
>
> Vector fonts instead describe how to draw the character and
> other useful info like how much space to leave between other
> characters before and after it. Thus they can be drawn to
> almost any size, and still be nicely rounded off on the curves
> to give a pleasing look.

Thanks Alan.  That's why I love this mailing list!  :-)
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick

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