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From: kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Adobe Type 1 font file sizes
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Date: 22 Aug 90 21:27:54 GMT
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	I'm looking at the sizes of the outline font files that came
with Adobe Type Manager 1.2 (Macintosh)...

	Courier              28,686 bytes
	Courier Bold         29,721
	Courier Oblique      35,010
	Courier BoldOblique  36,915

	Helvetica            27,866
	Helv. Bold           28,162
	Helv. Oblique        33,990
	Helv. BoldOblique    34,677

	The question is, why are the oblique font files 20 to 25 percent
larger than the non-oblique files?

	The only explanation I could think of is that maybe Adobe is
clever and has a command defined that's a "lineto-same-x-coordinate"
that takes one parameter, so non-oblique fonts could use the shorthand
for their vertical strokes... but this is speculation, of course.

	Just wondering...

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