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From: kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Adobe Courier versions
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Date: 2 Dec 90 04:33:59 GMT
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In article <40512@ut-emx.uucp> clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) writes:
>In article <}X}^8==@rpi.edu> kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>>[]
>>	When I got Adobe Type Manager 2.0 for my Macintosh, I was
>>surprised to see (when printing fonts very large) that the included
>>Courier font had slab serifs with _square_ ends, as opposed to the
>>rounded ones commonly found on PostScript printers.
>>
>Hmm, I'm going out on a limb here, since I don't know this for SURE, but
>I believe that Courier has always had "slab" serifs. Perhaps you're thinking
>of American Typewriter?  Courier on Postscript printers is an outline
>rendering of a stroke font, and as such I would expect the ends of each
>serif to be square (or in the case of the end of a rounded stroke, to be
>square to the tangent of the curve at that point--as in the top curve of 
>the lowercase a).

No, I meant Courier.  

I recall that back when I used LaserWriters they made serifs with
rounded tips (like real typewriters with cloth ribbons).  But the
version with ATM makes squared-off slab serifs which make the font look
very different.

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