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Article #2930Re: Universal font standard
From: Russ Nelson
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 02:45
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 02:45
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In article <7645@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: >Isomorphic fonts (ones that are simply linearly >scaled for different sizes) look ugly except near their original >design size. If we're going to put a lot of effort into font >description, let's do it right. Doug is right. Isomorphic fonts look nice iff you have enough bits to represent them, which implies that low-resolution fonts should be represented using bitmaps, while high-resolution fonts should be represented using outlines. -russ -- -russ AT&T: (315)268-6591 BITNET: NELSON@CLUTX Internet: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu GEnie: BH01 Compu$erve: 70441,205
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Universal font standard Message-ID: <701@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 10 Apr 88 02:45:05 GMT References: <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM> <219@ateng.UUCP> <7645@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 17