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We use Ghostscript to convert Postscript to high-resolution raster
images that are eventually fed to a film recorder.  The output
frame is about 8000 pixels wide, which is considerably higher than
most laser printers use.

Simple graphics look fine at this resolution, but text is awful.
Diagonal lines have "jaggies" that are much coarser than the output
pixel resolution.  To see an example of this try:

	% gs
	GS>/F1 /Times-Bold findfont 200 scalefont def
	GS>F1 setfont 0 0 moveto (AY) show
	GS>quit

Notice the awful-looking edges of the letters.  Feeding the same Postscript
code to "xpsview" produces fine-looking output, so the problem is in
Ghostscript itself or perhaps its font descriptions.

This is version 2.5.2 of Ghostscript and its fonts.  It's running on
both an Iris Indigo running IRIX 4.0.5F and a Sun-4 running SunOs 4.1.1.
The problem occurs on both machines.

Is this a known problem?  Is there an easy fix?  We just got
Ghostscript running last week, but the images will be shown at a
conference a week from today, so there is some urgency to getting this
fixed!

My email address is: linda@imax.com or xiao@comm.toronto.edu.