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Article #522Re: large scaled fonts & GhostScript
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:22
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:22
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In article <25950004@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM> dockhorn@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM (#Patrick Dockhorn) writes:
> The problem is, that the font I used is scaled to
> a size of about 3 inches, and the result is not very
> beautiful, i.e. it seems that a bitmap font is used
> and simply becomes enlarged using linear interpolation.
Yep.
The Ghostscript fonts are poor quality. You have three options.
1. Get the 2.4 fonts and only use Utopia and Courier.
2. Buy a copy of ATM and convert the fonts in it.
3. Download some better fonts from whateveritis.indiana.edu.
It's not Ghostscript's problem. Some of the fonts I've downloaded are quite
stunning, and now I've hacked psroff to use Utopia instead of Times I'm
totally happy. I do need to sit down and reencode a lot of Mac-derived
fonts that have perthousand and ellipses in place of quote and grave.
--
/F{findfont exch scalefont setfont}def /S{moveto show}def /T{/Times-Roman F}def
8 T(Ferranti International Controls Corporation)24 28 S(+1 713 274 5180)24 12 S
(Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012)24 20 S 12 /Courier F(`-_-')320 32 S( 'U` )320 16 S
12 T(Peter da Silva)24 36 S 16 T(Have you hugged your wolf today?)358 24 S
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: large scaled fonts & GhostScript Message-ID: <id.NIWO.QB5@ferranti.com> Sender: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <25950004@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:22:26 GMT Lines: 23