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Article #6278Re: Adobe Type Manager
From: Frank Kolnick
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 21:08
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 21:08
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In article <kZB1eze00WB684dGho@andrew.cmu.edu> jb28+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Barbose) writes:
>...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. ...
I thought the hints were more an adjustment for varying resolution (e.g.,
taking the slant out of a delicate typeface at 300dpi) than for visual
optimization. As far as I know, no digital typeface manufacturer produces
'optically corrected' fonts (although one -- can't remember which, but it's
not Adobe -- claims they're going to).
--
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!frank From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager Message-ID: <5104@mnetor.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 89 21:08:27 GMT References: <kZB1eze00WB684dGho@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 18