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In article <110300005@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Actually, I am surprised that laser printer users like Adobe's fonts.

  Your comment surpises me. Adobe's fonts are the largest sellers and
highest rated by the top typeographers in the world.

>Their outline technology is just too crude to work really well at less than
>1200 d.p.i., and even there compromises apparently have been made.

It seems that you may have Adobe and some other type manufacturer reversed.
Everybody has wanted the Adobe hinting technology that makes our fonts look
consistant across various resolutions. BitStream's fonts are only advertised
for >1200 dpi because they lack these hints. One of the recent issues of
Publish something magazine compared hinted and non-hinted fonts and let the
eyes be the judge - guess which looked better. And our outline technology is
the same outline technology everyone uses - Bezier curves. The hinting is
added to improve the look at lower resolution.

>The only way to get things REALLY right on a computer is to store the
>bitmaps, hand adjusted, on a disk. That really doesn't take too
>much space - all the fonts for a book I am writing take only
>3 megabytes including resolutions of 1270 and 300 d.p.i. as well
>as screen sizes. 
>And I have fine tuned out a few crudities in the 300 and 1270 d.p.i.
>sizes. 

(Personal Mini-Flame On)

This 'flame' of yours on Adobe seems like you don't know what you're talking
about. Bitmaps are used (assuming PostScript fonts here since that is what
you're complaining about) for screen layout. Hand tuned Bitmaps are the
best way to get accurate screen placement. But a 72 dpi (Screen resolution)
Times bitmap at 72 point takes up 105K of space. If you want 10,12,14,18,24,36,
48,60, & 72 point bitmaps then you'll have a 300+K set of bitmaps for just
one face. If you add bold, italic, bold-italic - then were at 1200K. Now
lets add that for a books you'll use a serif font for body text, a sans-serif
for titles, page numbers, and a third Titling font for other effects. This
comes to 3600K w/o the PostScript outlines (12 faces x 30K = 360K). With ATM
you need the outlines (360K) plus 10,12 bitmaps for 12 faces (using above 
example - 12K per face) for a grand total of 474K - and you get near hand-
tuned quality at any size. Remember, all of my bitmap calculations are for
a 72 dpi bitmap. If you really used bitmaps for 300 and 1270 dpi then you'd 
need ~4X and 18X bitmaps (a "tad" over 3 megs). From your talk above it 
doesn't sound like you're using PostScript Type 1 fonts. The only PostScript
fonts you can edit are Type 3, but you're saying you have one outline for
300 dpi and another for 1270. The whole idea behind PostScript is device
independance - resolution doesn't matter because they are all mathematical
calculations. 

(Personal Mini-Flame Off)

Some last second questions:
What fonts are you having problems with? 
What fonts don't you like? 
What/whose printer are you printing too?

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Brian Bezanson                                          bezanson@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated           The opinions expressed above are my
                                     own and may not represent those of Adobe.