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Article #3445Re: Scaleable fonts
From: Mark Kantrowitz
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 02:42
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 02:42
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In article <203@van-bc.UUCP>, jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) writes: > I am writing an application in which I need to generate high-quality > font glyphs at arbitrary sizes and raster resolutions. Since this is > an interactive application, Cons'ing up a mode_def and spawning METAFONT > to generate the font is not an option. > > Does anyone license outline or vector fonts and the routines needed > to rasterize them? The cost of licensing fonts and so-called "hinting" technology is pretty steep. If you are creating bitmaps at resolutions greater than 24 lines to the em-square, I think you'll find naive scan-conversion to be usable. It all depends on what you'd be using the fonts for. --mkant
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