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From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript font sample files (do they exist)
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Date: 6 Oct 89 03:30:28 GMT
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In article <15066@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
(Jeffrey M White) writes:

> are PD files available which when printed out on a Postscript
> laserprinter, will give you a real sample of that font ...  [in]
> a couple of different sizes, with bold, italic, outline, etc.

> I would like to be able to matchup a font [to an existing form]

> it may be difficult to provide a font sample document without actually
> providing the font itself

Since PostScript fonts are either outlines or stroke patterns, they are
inherently scalable.  A "sample" of all the characters in a font would in
fact be the font itself.

However, it would not be particularly difficult to provide sample fonts
containing, for example, only a few characters.  This would allow you to
see what it looked like at various sizes, without giving away the farm.

I don't know whether any font suppliers are actually doing this.