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From: wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically
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Date: 8 Nov 90 21:47:34 GMT
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p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:


>In article <48088@cornell.UUCP>, wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes...
>> 
>>My question is, would it be possible to print out a document that has been
>>electronically enlarged. That is, twelve point font descriptions are printed
>>twice as big, so when they are photographically reduced the resolution
>>is (roughly) doubled?
>>
>Well, PostScript uses a single "master" (ie, character shape definition) for all
>point sizes, so you don't actually get different shapes for different  sizes. 
>Therefore, you can easily take a 300dpi PostScript printout, stat it down, and
>treat it as 600 dpi.

Does it really? Adobe must produce fonts that are tuned to different
sizes. Can they be manipulated?

-Peter

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