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Article #472Re: Postscript font sample files (do they exist)
From: Perry Hutchison
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1989 03:30
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1989 03:30
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In article <15066@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White) writes: > are PD files available which when printed out on a Postscript > laserprinter, will give you a real sample of that font ... [in] > a couple of different sizes, with bold, italic, outline, etc. > I would like to be able to matchup a font [to an existing form] > it may be difficult to provide a font sample document without actually > providing the font itself Since PostScript fonts are either outlines or stroke patterns, they are inherently scalable. A "sample" of all the characters in a font would in fact be the font itself. However, it would not be particularly difficult to provide sample fonts containing, for example, only a few characters. This would allow you to see what it looked like at various sizes, without giving away the farm. I don't know whether any font suppliers are actually doing this.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!ccssrv!perry From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Postscript font sample files (do they exist) Message-ID: <715@ccssrv.UUCP> Date: 6 Oct 89 03:30:28 GMT References: <15066@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) Followup-To: comp.fonts Organization: Control-C Software, Inc., Beaverton, OR Lines: 21