Path: utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!frank From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager Message-ID: <5104@mnetor.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 89 21:08:27 GMT References: Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 18 In article jb28+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Barbose) writes: >...Metal fonts are usually shaped differently (not scaled versions of one >another), at least a little, for each font (size of type). ... >Actually, there are things called _hints_ which help to make smaller sizes >look better, so all font sizes are not _purely_ a scaled version of a generic >font. ... I thought the hints were more an adjustment for varying resolution (e.g., taking the slant out of a delicate typeface at 300dpi) than for visual optimization. As far as I know, no digital typeface manufacturer produces 'optically corrected' fonts (although one -- can't remember which, but it's not Adobe -- claims they're going to). -- Frank Kolnick, consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank