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Article #3604Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically
From: Peter Wayner
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 21:47
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 21:47
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p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes: >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. Does it really? Adobe must produce fonts that are tuned to different sizes. Can they be manipulated? -Peter Peter Wayner Department of Computer Science Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY 14850 EMail:wayner@cs.cornell.edu Office: 607-255-9202 or 255-1008 Home: 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-277-6678
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!wayner From: wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically Message-ID: <48104@cornell.UUCP> Date: 8 Nov 90 21:47:34 GMT References: <17104@shlump.nac.dec.com> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY Lines: 23