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From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: ATM 2.0/Type 1 question
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Date: 17 Oct 90 12:53:27 GMT
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I recently downloaded a Type 1 Shareware font called Zirkle and have
noticed a few problems.  The lower-case 'e' is designed as a single
outline (like a rubber tube wrapped around).  Where the outlines meet,
there is a bit of an overlap.
 
ATM inverts the overlap, and printing the font to any QuickDraw
printer shows the overlap inverted as well.
 
The Personal NT prints the font as one would expect it -- without
overlap.  This raises a few of my questions:
 
1) Is this just another example of a font which has been incorrectly
   designed (as is often the case with PD/SW fonts)?
2) Related to (1) are overlapping areas allowed, or should they
   be removed and a clockwise outer path and a counterclockwise 
   inner path substituted?
3) The Personal NT supposedly as the ATM font generation built
   into the Postscript ROMs, yet ATM 2.0 and the output doesn't
   match.  Explanation?
 
Hopefully someone from Adobe or another informed party can answer
this...
 
Thanks in advance --
 
Ken

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