Why are postscript fonts so tight?

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From: Gregory R. Lehmann
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 08:03

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It seems to me adobe have made a mistake with their fonts. They all
have an extremely annoying tendency to run together. The classic
example is burn which turns into bum when printed on our 2 laser
printers. Does anyone know why they have done this? I have heard
comments that it is not the fonts but the software that produces
the postscript. I have disproved this by writing my own postscript
program to print burn. I still got bum. I can't believe adobe
expect every piece of software to put extra space around every
character just to make the resulting text readable. Any other
theories?

Greg

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Subject: Why are postscript fonts so tight?
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Date: 26 Jun 89 08:03:14 GMT
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