Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:12471 comp.lang.postscript:7536 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript Bitmap Fonts Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 91 20:37:44 GMT References: <1991Feb8.014709.13728@wam.umd.edu> <8006@umd5.umd.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: erick.gac.edu In-reply-to: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu's message of 9 Feb 91 15:16:52 GMTLines: 38 In article <8006@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: In article <1991Feb8.014709.13728@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes: >Does anyone know where the Screen Fonts for the NeXT come from? >Specifically, if I get a new font, how do I get a screen bitmap? >The outline fonts look really bad. Screen bitmap? In a Display PostScript environment? This isn't a Macintosh. It's all PS, at least that's the way I understand it. Well, yes and no. When fonts get too small (12-point on a 92dpi screen is too small), they just don't look good without hints and/or a screen font. The included fonts have screen fonts for 10, 12, 14, and 18 point in most cases (though it looks like it's changed a bit from 1.0). Note what your options on the Font Panel are (namely, 10, 12, ...). Though you can set to the "between" sizes, it's easier to use the explicitely given ones :-). The screen fonts drop off around 18 point, because then the postscript-generated ones look about as good, anyhow. The public domain fonts seem to have neither screen fonts nor hints, thus look fairly terrible on-screen (though most look good on the printer). [BTW, I seemed to have missed the explaination of screen fonts :-). Screen fonts are essentially a hand-tuned bitmap of the characters which is used in place of a dps-generated bitmap for those screen fonts availiable. Screen fonts are always an integral number of pixels in size (regular fonts can be, say, 6.5 pixels wide). You can get the screen font for a font, if availiable, by looking for Screen- (if you're a direct person), or just saying [aFont screenFont] if you use the appkit.] -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "Buy `Sweat 'n wit '2 Live Crew'`, a new weight loss program by Richard Simmons . . ."