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From: steve willer
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:27

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  >Judging on the fact that the origianal font (when displayed
  >on screen) is perfect, it is my guess that Microsoft has
  >hidden some bitmaps in their font that are used automatically
  >by Windows for on screen display.  Dows anybody know anything
  >about this?  Is there some way to bundle bitmaps back into
  >a TrueType font?  Is there more to this than meets the eye?

That's a phenomenon called "hinting." It gives extra information for low
point sizes. Given the fact that you can also stretch, skew and rotate
TrueType fonts, I doubt they use bitmaps.
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Subject: truetype hidden bitm
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