Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: problems with 10 point fonts on 300dpi laser printers
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.200926.26723@eci386.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 90 20:09:26 GMT
References: <1990Jul9.082904.11449@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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In article <1990Jul9.082904.11449@robobar.co.uk> steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard) writes:
> 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)

Are the problems large enough to be the fonts themselves, or a resolution
problem?

There's a trick that some packages use - namely, round off the X and Y
coordinates to the nearest 1/300th of an inch.  Certainly on postscript
printers this will sometimes prevent +- 1 pixel problems.  This can
often be seen by printing a whole pile of "i"'s or "l"'s as a string
and some of them might have slightly varying widths.
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