Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType? Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 90 17:40:05 GMT References: <1100.26af57d3@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Jul26.135834.9874@tsa.co.uk> <862@grenada.UUCP> <174@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 25 In-reply-to: mneerach@b.inf.ethz.ch's message of 6 Aug 90 12:19:56 GMT In article <174@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> mneerach@b.inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) 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 ? You haven't missed anything. I was considering the case of Apple and TrueType: They already had a 10 pt. font for each of their fonts, and it would just be a task of making sure the hints would generate the fonts they already used. But I think I am confusing TrueType, PostScript/ATM and Folio. I believe Folio has a bitmap font it uses for small, common screen fonts. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett