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Re: Good font for faxing?

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From: Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:16
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In article <1992Jul29.182711.3869@Warren.MENTORG.COM> tom_limoncelli@warren.mentorg.com (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
>I'm using the latest gnu/mit fax software (3.2) with the latest

I would be very interested in more information about what/where the
gnu/mit fax software is.

  [ stuff deleted]

>Everything works fine, but the font is sort of ugly.  It certainly is
>not a good font for that resolution.

When using Ghostscript the "resolution" of the font is really irrelevent.
The problem you are having is that most of the Ghostscript fonts are
not of commercial quality yet, but they are getting better.  In the
last release of Ghostscript (2.4), there are two very good fonts that
were donated by IBM and Adobe to the X Consortium.  I find that they
both do a superb job in faxes.  An exerpt from the Ghostscript file
"Fontmap".

%
% Type 1 fonts contributed to the X11R5 distribution.

% The following notice accompanied the Courier font:
%
%   IBM Courier - Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 1990, 1991

/Courier		(cour.pfa)	;
/Courier-Italic		(couri.pfa)	;
/Courier-Bold		(courb.pfa)	;
/Courier-BoldItalic	(courbi.pfa)	;

% The following notice accompanied the Utopia font:
%
%           Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated
%           Utopia (R)
%           Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated

/Utopia-Regular		(utrg.pfa)	;
/Utopia-Italic		(uti.pfa)	;
/Utopia-Bold		(utb.pfa)	;
/Utopia-BoldItalic	(utbi.pfa)	;


I hope this helps.

  [ stuff deleted]

Cheers,
joel
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