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From: geof@aurora.com (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.190200.751@aurora.com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 19:02:00 GMT
References: <17104@shlump.nac.dec.com> <48104@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: geof@aurora.UUCP (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Organization: The Aurora Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <48104@cornell.UUCP> wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes:
>p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:
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>>In article <48088@cornell.UUCP>, wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes...
>>Well, PostScript uses a single "master" (ie, character shape definition) for all
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>Does it really? Adobe must produce fonts that are tuned to different
>sizes. Can they be manipulated?

Actually, many phototypesetters also use a lense to photographically
enlarge type.  The day of design size versus actual size has passed to
a large extent.

However, Adobe does sell alternate versions of some fonts that are based
on different masters.  For example, you can get Times and Helvetica
based on what look like 10 point masters.  These characters have
shapes more appropriate for 10 point, and look somewhat stodgy at
larger sizes.  There are also some type styles designed for classified
adds that are intended for very small print size.

But graphic arts is responding to the new concepts.  The other day I
saw a magazine article that was set in one of these classified add
typefaces, at 12 point, to give the page a wide and spacy look.  The
article was about "the conflation of luxe & loose" clothes (I looked
it up because of a reference in a Dave Barry article while killing
time... really!), so I guess the typesetter decided to flaunt loose
text with loose clothes and the loose-looking men that were in them.
Had it not been for the humor of Dave Barry that put it all in proper
perspective, I might have loosed my breakfast.

- Geof
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