Star yellowTab Now Sells Complete Hardware Systems with Zeta
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 26th Sep 2003 21:55 UTC
Zeta 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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font rendering
by s_d on Sat 27th Sep 2003 00:21 UTC

I don't believe that those are just I-Kit and API constraints.
Just buggy hinting. Switch, for example, antialiasing off and look at 'o' from arial. In windoze and freetype it is normal symmetrical square with rounded corners.
In BeOS - ugly assymetrical shape with deformed right-top corner (or such). I think that that cheap version of BitStream engine was tuned to use only in antialiased mode, where those "wrong" corners must be blurred out.
But it has bugs even in simplest elements, like in N in some NATIVE Bitstream fonts, where this element gets double width (like being bold) when vertical elements have normal size.