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Newbie ps vs type 1 vs type 3 font question...

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From: games
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 22:59
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I understand postscript pretty well as a language, and I can make
pretty things come out of a postscript printer.  However, when it comes
to fonts, I have a point of confusion.

I know that I can download a font into a postscript printer, and I think
that that is a postscript font.

Now, what exactly are adobe type 1 (truetype) and adobe type 3 fonts.

I think that the truetype 1's are the equivalent in some way of a 
postscipr font, but you have to do some conversion from 1 to the other.

And a type 3 is not scalable, but rather bitmap, so you can convert it to
a fixed point postscript font?

Or am I way off base here.

			John.
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