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In article <868@actnyc.UUCP>, gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) says:
>
>A few weeks ago I posted an inquiry about font outlines
>which contained information about how to change them to
>adjust for size.  I get the following, without permission
>Intellifont OEMs mentioned are HP, Archetype Inc. (Boston),


      stuff deleted...


>Hampstead Computer Graphics (East Hampstead, NH), Laser
>Friendly (San Jose, CA), and G.O. Graphics (Burlington, MA).
>
>Similar products are said to be produced by:
>
>   Bitstream (Fontware)
>   URW (Nimbus)
>   Flamingo Graphics (?)
>   Adobe [via Linotype].
>
>Generally these products seem to be for sale only to OEMs.
>
>* Computer Graphics World
>  119 Russell St. POB 1112
>  Littleton, MA 01460
>  (617) 486-9501

     I seems to me that it would be fair to say that METAFONT produces
``intelligent'' fonts.  Can't you take an existing font and make it a
little fatter, or skinnier, or change the aspect ratio slightly, and so on
and thus make it look better (or worse, probably, if I did it) at a new
size?

MetatFont is part of the Public Domain TeX distribution, and runs on every
computer ever built in the entire galaxy, including IBM mainframes.