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From: jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price)
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Subject: Re: Textures question
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Date: 10 Aug 90 20:38:37 GMT
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In article <15320@reed.UUCP>, barry@reed.UUCP (Barry Smith) writes:
>In article <0093AE7D.ADDF3D20@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> I write:
>Using the Deskwriter fonts, (which, I believe, 
>>are outline fonts), the quality is noticeably better.  
>>
>It's interesting to see this viewpoint, which seems to be widely held: that
>"outline" fonts are somehow qualitatively superior to "bitmap" fonts. 

	The reason for the superiority, in my case anyway, was (as Don 
Hosek has already pointed out) due to the rescaling of the bitmap fonts.  I 
believe that had I used cmr12 instead of cmr10 scaled\magstep1, I would not 
have seen this problem.  I will check it later and inform y'all if this is 
not so.

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