Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!robobar!steve
From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: problems with 10 point fonts on 300dpi laser printers
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.082904.11449@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 9 Jul 90 08:29:04 GMT
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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I am having problems with the quality of the 300dpi 10 point fonts as
distributed.  I am using a HP laserjet II in combination dvi3ps and a
commercial postscript interprator for the ibmpc (goscript).

In general parts of the characters are to thin (the diagonal descender of the
y for example) while other parts are too thick (eg. the right hand side
of the a and the d)

I have used MicroTeX from Addison-Wesley with the same printer / interprator
combination and the quality is much better.  With there fonts all the lines are
thicker.  Am I doing something wrong? I've tried the write white code
provided with cm fonts, but there is no improvement.  Has anyone got a HPLJ
definition?

I have tried to rebuild the fonts with METAFONT specifying a larger
value for 'blacker', but this does not appear to help.

Steve
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