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Article #24603Re: Font quality on the LaserWriter SC
From: Stew Rubenstein
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1988 03:10
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1988 03:10
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In article <12371156232.110.P.PRIAPUS@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU> P.PRIAPUS@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU (Bill Lipa) writes: >Anyway, I would like to know how the high-quality >fonts are handled on the SC, the QuickDraw LaserWriter. If they are bitmaps, >I would imagine that you can't print the variety of sizes that the current >LaserWriters offer at high quality. Is this true or do SC's do special font >processing to alleviate this problem? This is true. It works just like an ImageWriter only more so - you have to have the font four times the size for highest quality printing. That is, to print a twelve point font at highest quality, you have to have a 48 point font in your System or Suitcase file. Stew Rubenstein Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc. UUCPnet: seismo!harvard!rubenstein CompuServe: 76525,421 Internet: rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu MCIMail: CSC
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!hao!husc6!endor!stew From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Font quality on the LaserWriter SC Message-ID: <3980@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 3 Feb 88 03:10:55 GMT References: <12371156232.110.P.PRIAPUS@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: stew@endor.UUCP (Stew Rubenstein) Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 Keywords: laserwriter fonts Summary: LW SC fonts are bitmaps