In article <50d05d0cc7dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thank you, but unfortunately rather a lot of dosh just to > > > convert a couple of fonts. In message <50d0605abdcharles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > why do RISC OS users expect to get something for nothing? Quite. £40 is the cost of just a couple of the many more hours spent developing an invaluable application. The number of /good-quality/ fonts available in Acorn format is very small, so effT1T and effTTT are essential tools (and effT1T is infinitely better than T1ToFont). Nobody can make a lot of money out of the RISC OS market, so becomes increasingly important that those who contribute to it make at least a little out of everything they do. (I feel strongly about this because the same applies in my own field!) In article <f30550d150.martinv@xxxxxx>, Martin Vethake <martinv@xxxxxx> wrote: > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ That reads Acorn-format fonts (although my experience of it, admittedly a few years ago, wasn't encouraging) but doesn't write them, as far as I know. Ornament fonts such as the one in question are a somewhat special case. They are far more complex than alphabetic or other symbol fonts, and such complexity evidently wasn't considered when the Acorn font manager was devised, c.1991. Don't forget that, in those days, desktop computers running other OSs didn't rasterise outline fonts on-the-fly, complete with anti-aliasing etc., as RISC OS did; they relied on lower-quality bitmaps for screen display. Rendering such complex glyphs would have been impracticably slow for any GUI at the time. Away from RISC OS, rendering outlines was left to the RIP in the (expensive) Postscript printer or imagesetter, which could devote all its resources to the task and didn't have the same time constraints. By the time high-quality on-screen font rendering reached Mac OS and Windows, the same constraints of time and memory no longer applied. -- To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling