From: Brian Hall 

Frank Haber wrote:

> Random questions from an xxNIX font ignoramus:
>
> What's the main thrust of font support in Linux these days, PS-T1, TT or Open
> Type?

I figured someone with more knowledge about your questions would jump in. 
I'll answer what I can.

All of the above seem to be well supported.

> Anyone here use Linux for publishing?  How's the preview and rendering to
> Lino, if anyone still does it that way?

Sorry, no experience.

> Does Linux-386 have any kernel support for bitmap or vector simple fonts?
> HPGL or any vector drawing stuff? Are they supported anywhere else, if not,
in
> a commonly available formatter?  TeX, SGML and troff need not apply.

The kernel doesn't have anything to do with the font support. The higher
layers handle the font support. PostScript is well supported and from what
I can tell most printer support is done by sending things to a postscript
interpreter and then converting to something else for a particular printer
if needed.

> Does the GUI choice affect the above, as far as the user's concerned?

No. The GUI makes a difference in whether anti-aliasing to the screeen is
supported. Printing is handled below the GUI layer and works just as well
even with no GUI running.

> What did FrameMaker for UNIX do?  Is it still sold, and on what platform?

Not familiar with it.

> Is there a good place to learn about this?

Try http://www.linuxprinting.org.

Brian

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