Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!newbery From: newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType? Message-ID: <1990Aug09.020918.25520@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 9 Aug 90 02:09:18 GMT References: <1100.26af57d3@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Jul26.135834.9874@tsa.co.uk> <3880@bwdls58.UUCP> <1468@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Computing Serv. Ctr, Victoria Uni., Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 13 In article <1468@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes: >1. Lasers use a round laser beam to write the graphics to the page. If you >try to clip the beam to a square beam you get fringed effect around the spots. While we are being picky, the spot is actually elliptical in most printers, moreso in the LED lasers (Canon) than the HeNe. If you are using 1000dpi or up the differences are not nearly so important and you can use the 'simpler' system, i.e. write white, without any loss of resolution. -- Michael Newbery "MVS - well yes, it's big - but it IS slow!"