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Re: Adobe Type Manager

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From: Jeffrey Joseph Barbose
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 05:01
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Incidentally, what size IS Adobe's Times Roman intended for -
all the different sizes it prints out are just scaled versions of
what presumably originated as a copy of one particular size of
a genuine (metal) Times Roman font. The letters of real (metal)
fonts are usually shaped differently (not scaled versions of one
another), at least a little, for each font (size of type).
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Actually, there are things called _hints_ which help to make smaller sizes
look better, so all font sizes are not _purely_ a scaled version of a generic
font.  Yes, these are crude changes compared to REAL fonts, but hey, we're
talking about computers here, where everything is just an approximation of
an analog, continuous universe.....

Jeff
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From: jb28+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Barbose)
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Date: 12 Oct 89 05:01:51 GMT
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