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From: rberlin@birdland.sun.com (Rich Berlin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically
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Date: 9 Nov 90 23:51:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: dhoyt@vz.acs.umn.edu's message of 9 Nov 90 15:23:49 GMT

>   Most postscript fonts do not have multiple rederings for different sizes.
> Unfortunate, but it does make it cheaper.

I've seen this several times.  Are you all *sure* about this?  My
understanding is that Adobe Type 1 fonts (e.g. the built-ins on the
LaserWriter) are "hinted," which means for example that at small sizes
some of the strokes will be narrower than at large sizes.  (To do it
right, I think the metrics have to vary somewhat as well, but I don't
know if the hinting does that.)

-- Rich