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From: dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re^2: How flexible are the Macintosh outline fonts?
Message-ID: <1989Jul14.104844.17925@sics.se>
Date: 14 Jul 89 10:48:57 GMT
References: <1989Jul12.111024.10324@sics.se> <812@acorn.co.uk>
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I (incorrectly) stated:

>  - Acorn DTP uses knowledge about the form of the letters to make the
>  kerning "perfect" and automatic.

And John Bowler at Acorn replied:

>Unfortunately this is not the case - currently our font format has space
>for character pair kerning information, but this is not used.

I'm sorry about my mistake.  I really meant that "Calamus 1.09.2" on an
Atari has this functionality.  I quote and translate from the Swedish
magazine \CAP, June 1989, page 30:

	"The excellent kerning function in Calamus is also using the
vectorised fonts and using them automatically computes the most
appropriate distance between the characters".

So there does not seem to exist a system which combines fuzzy fonts and
automatic kerning, or does it?

	/Dan Sahlin

email: dan@sics.se