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From: Vern_Klukas
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:12

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Hoping for some expert knowledge here (Mr Phinney?). There is a thread going on over on the InDesign board about outlining type vs live type, and the issue of font hinting has been paraded about.

Now my position is that hinting has no visual effect on high res output (i.e. 2540 dpi and up) and I have done several film tests over the years that have confirmed that to my satisfaction. The test I used was to create negative film of the live type and positive film of the outlined type (and vice versa), then placing the two films emulsion to emulsion and inspecting for any slivers of light.

Comments, please?

Yours
Vern

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