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Bitstream and Lycoris: Taking Linux fonts to the desktop


Publication:	DesktopLinux.com	Date:	Jun 17 2004

Does your job require you to create designs or documents with special fonts? Ever wonder what 'anti-aliasing' fonts or 'hinting' really means? Fonts can improve readability for computer users and are important as elements of style and design. Users of Apple and Windows operating systems have long had a large number of fonts on their systems. Today, Linux is gaining both enhanced font technologies and access to large font foundries as the first independent digital foundry, Bitstream, is working to make sure that users of open source have the same rich text experience as those using other OSes.

DesktopLinux.com spoke with Lycoris and Bitstream about the technology and a little bit about the joint projects they have underway.

We talked with Joseph Cheek, Chief Executive Officer of Lycoris; Anna Chagnon, President and CEO of Bitstream; and Sampo Kaasila, VP of Research and Development for Bitstream about the state of fonts on the Linux platform . . .