Re: Font hinting

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From: Dov Isaacs
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:26

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Vern,

I also responded on that forum to your message. Yes, at the resolution you are talking about and at normal text point sizes, it would be very unlikely that you would see any visible differences.

However, recognize that as digital print takes over much more of what is currently printed via offset, resolutions of 600 to 1200 dpi are much more common. And at such resolutions, depending upon both the point size and the stylistic considerations of the font, you may very well see problems with no hinting ... or as the original thread on the InDesign forum was concerned with, "text outlining" as a means of supposedly getting around font legal embedding restrictions or dealing with anal print service providers.

- Dov

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