Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!media-lab!mit-caf!npreyer
From: npreyer@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Norris Preyer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeXtures question
Message-ID: <4928@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 90 11:55:39 GMT
References: <0093AE22.A6D58A80@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> <27878@netnews.upenn.edu> <0093AE45.4DA805A0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> <27892@netnews <8068@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: npreyer@mit-caf.UUCP (Norris Preyer)
Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT
Lines: 28

>In article <0093AE7D.ADDF3D20@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu>, jprice@uclapp.physics.u
cla.edu (John Price) writes...
>>      I have run TeXtures on a Mac here at school, with a Deskwriter, and
>>the output is indeed very good for a bitmap font.  However, the Deskwriter
>>is capable of much better.
>
>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 (some subtle
>interletter positioning is possible as anyone who has read and
>understood DVItype... I'm still realizing the immense benefits
>possible). All of this, however depends on a couple of things:
[many interesting details omitted]
>
>Don Hosek                       TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont support, consulting

Actually, TeXtures does have noticeable spacing problems printing to
a Deskwriter (check out "book" and other double-o words) which vanish
when it previews or prints to a laserwriter.  OzTeX, combined with the
excellent DVIM72-Mac quickdraw printing program, does not suffer this
problem; quickdraw and postscript outputs are identical (and excellent).
 
--Norris Preyer (npreyer@caf.mit.edu)



<enough wasted space to get pnews to post?>