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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.202145.25271@ico.isc.com>
Date: 26 Nov 90 20:21:45 GMT
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shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:

> I've always wondered what a Type 1 hinted font uses to decide
> what "real" size it should attempt to optimize for. Does it use
> the font's scale factor, the graphics state scale factor, or
> the product of these?...

Existing Type 1 fonts don't have any such "real size" optimizations.  The
tuning which is done is performed by the raster-conversion algorithms in
the interpreter--but this is tuning for a particular device (and its par-
ticular resolution and rendering characteristics), not for effects related
to human perception and/or esthetics.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...Mr. Natural says, "Use the right tool for the job."