Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 26th Sep 2003 21:55 UTC
yellowTab announced the "Complete Zeta Solution": Both in laptop (Centrino) and desktop form (P4 and AthlonXP), yellowTab will sell, to Europe only, complete and compatible hardware systems. All systems come with a 2 year warranty and estimated delivery is 10-14 days. The systems will ship with YellowTAB Zeta 1.0-RC1, and buyers will be able to upgrade to 1.0-Final for free (only shipping will be paid extra). Also, as a launching promotion, and for a limited time only, you can order the Deluxe Edition Special Bundle, where along with Zeta Deluxe Edition 1.0-RC1, you also receive a free Zeta t-shirt. UPDATE: YellowTAB sent us a screenshot of Zeta. Font rendering is much improved since the betas.
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Curious --- how to you make font-rendering complicated? You tell the rendering library (which is a black box) to render a glyph for each letter in the string. You go along the string, composit each letter, adjusting the spacing according to the kerning table. That's all you really need to get pretty good rendering. Now, text layout and font metrics are hard, but they shouldn't affect quality. Maybe FontFusion's API isn't as easy as FreeType's?