Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ethz!neptune!b!mneerach From: mneerach@b.inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType? Message-ID: <174@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Date: 6 Aug 90 12:19:56 GMT References: <1100.26af57d3@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Jul26.135834.9874@tsa.co.uk> <862@grenada.UUCP> Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch Reply-To: mneerach@b.inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) Organization: Departement Informatik, ETH, Zurich Lines: 14 In article barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: >Getting a 10 point font to look decent on a 72 dpi screen is easy. >Getting a 5 point font to look good on paper is something else. Assuming we talk about a 300 dpi or higher resolution printer, this should be *much* easier than getting a 10 point font on screen. 5 points on a laserwriter correspond to about a 20 point screen font. Or have I missed something ? Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher mneerach@c.inf.ethz.ch "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me" -- Hunter S. Thompson