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In article <1546@adobe.UUCP> mills@adobe.COM (Dan Mills) writes:
> 
> Hogwash. The hints don't distort anything. Nor does the rendering software
> which makes use of those hints. The specification of the Type 1 font format,
> available 1st Qtr '90, will make this abundantly clear.
> 
> And by the way, the "large number" of fonts with two complete sets of
> outline data is exactly 10. That's less than 2% of today's library, and
> since we have no intention of creating more such fonts, that percentage will
> only decrease.
> 
> Dan Mills
> Manager of Typography
> Adobe Systems Incorporated

I can only ask if the hint's distort nothing why do you need 2 sets of outline 
data in ANY fonts. I could see only 2 possible reasons either the hinting
required some compromise to the outline shape or there were some founts
which the hinting  needed to start from a distorted outline and then
hinted it back to the correct shape. A press release from Bitstream
when they released Type 1 fonts suggested that they had not used hints
because of the compromises requred to the outline shape to produce the
hinted fonts. Now this may have been ad hype on the part of Bitstream and
it may have caused me to jump to an incorrect conclusion on seeing the 
2 outline fonts but that is part of the penalty you have to pay for
having closed technology fonts. People will guess about what you are 
doing and why you are doing it they may guess wrong but we are all human
(mostly) and so make misteaks.

I'm sorry about the large number comment it was probably
foolish comeing as it did from a sample of about 6 fonts where 2 had double
data sets so I must have been lucky (unlucky?) in hitting so high a percentage.
I have had a large number of requests for the program so perhaps you can
comment on Adobes position on a posting of this program ?.

Chris Cain


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