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Re: Font Pricing

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From: Mark Harrison
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 1990 13:16
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In article <1990Sep10.130617.11792@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:

> We shall simply have to see how well the results come out. It won't
> be hard to beat Postscript, which is only fair on 1200 d.p.i. 
> typesetters and downright ludicrous on 300 d.p.i. printers.

Doug,

What kind of equipment are you used to dealing with?  I hate to seem
like a philistine, but I've always thought Postscript looked
very nice, 300 dpi or whatever.

In other words, what's wrong with PS that it doesn't look very good,
and what will make it better?
-- 
Mark Harrison             harrison@necssd.NEC.COM
(214)518-5050             {necntc, cs.utexas.edu}!necssd!harrison
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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
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