Re: Font hinting

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From: Herb
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:25

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I was always under the impression that hinting applied only to 
on-screen displays, and wasn't used at all when rasterizing to printed 
output, which is assumed to be of high enough resolution that it's not 
needed.

It certainly wouldn't be used if the printer uses fonts' outline 
vectors (as a downloaded font to a postscript printer) and doesn't 
rasterize at all.

Or have I missed something?

  - Herb

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