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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: type 1 hint directions
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.230736.25994@visix.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 23:07:36 GMT
References: <LESLIE.91Feb8175404@book.dle.dg.com>
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In article <LESLIE.91Feb8175404@book.dle.dg.com> leslie@book.dle.dg.com
(Leslie French) writes:
>Does the direction of a hint make a difference, i.e. is there any
>difference between (say)
>        150 -10 hstem
>and
>        140 10 hstem
>if so, what?

I'm still a little fuzzy on some of the details of Adobe's hinting,
but my guess would be that the first argument tells the rasterizer
which edge to round in absolute device space (the other is then
adjusted relative to it, depending on the stem width).

Just a guess,
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