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Article #6223Re: Adobe Type Manager
From: Jeffrey Joseph Barbose
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 05:01
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). ------------ 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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