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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: problems with 10 point fonts on 300dpi laser printers
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.195524.7485@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 19:55:24 GMT
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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 you using actual TeX fonts? I use GoScript using Tomas Rokicki's
dvips and it works fine. I think I MIGHT have had to reposition the
horizontal positioning of the letters by 1/600 inch by changing
one macro in the header file. Works fine.

BUT ... there is a bug in GoScript so that all bitmaps have all
horizontal lines - including runs of pixels in characters - made
one pixel too wide. They know about this. And, to date, have not
called with a fix. You have to compensate by turning down the 
darkness control.

This is a genuine bug in GoScript. 

Doug McDonald