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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Postscript font sample files (d
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Date: 8 Oct 89 16:49:25 GMT
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>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.

Postscript fonts may also be bitmaps, which are scalable but look
ugly if scaled. They could distribute fonts at, say, 13.3 point
which few would want to copy. 

DougMcDonald