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Article #3603Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically
From: Peter Davis
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 18:42
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 18:42
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In article <48088@cornell.UUCP>, wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes... > >My question is, would it be possible to print out a document that has been >electronically enlarged. That is, twelve point font descriptions are printed >twice as big, so when they are photographically reduced the resolution >is (roughly) doubled? > Well, PostScript uses a single "master" (ie, character shape definition) for all point sizes, so you don't actually get different shapes for different sizes. Therefore, you can easily take a 300dpi PostScript printout, stat it down, and treat it as 600 dpi. Other than this, I don't know of any systems which do deal with multiple masters, except for phototypesetters. If you have a phototypesetter, you're already getting high resolution output.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!epik.enet.dec.com!p_davis From: p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically Message-ID: <17104@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 8 Nov 90 18:42:09 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 16