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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: UniqueId in Font Dictionaries: Why?
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Date: 25 Nov 90 19:44:15 GMT
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pgd@bbt.se writes:
> UniqueID is for keeping track of the font cache.

	I guess this is sort of a "philosophy of PostScript" question, but
why have the font designer/programmer supply the UniqueID at all?  If the
only reason it exists is to help the font cache, why not just have
"definefont" make up its own UniqueID, presumably by hashing the font name?
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