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From: barry@reed.UUCP (Barry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Textures question
Message-ID: <15322@reed.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 18:07:22 GMT
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Reply-To: barry@reed.UUCP (Barry Smith)
Organization: Blue Sky Research, Portland OR
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Summary: Mac print driver limitations correction

In article <8068@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu writes:
>Actually, if all goes well, the best quality is given by bitmap
>fonts. Because Textures goes through the standard Mac printer
>driving software, I don't think it can take advantage of the full
>benefits of the DVItype rounding algorithim 

>(if I'm
>wrong on this and Textures does handle this properly, I'm sure
>I'll be set straight on this issue). 

OK, let me set Don straight here...

Textures' positioning algorithm is not limited by our use of the standard
Macintosh printer drivers.

Barry Smith, Blue Sky Research
barry@reed.edu