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From: jon@research.canon.oz.au (Jon Windle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: flex help
Message-ID: <1991May17.032700.1763@research.canon.oz.au>
Date: 17 May 91 03:27:00 GMT
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
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I have been reading the ``Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1'' and
would like to understand how the ``flex'' and ``hinting'' work. I am
however a novice at postscript and the thought of wading unaided
through 4 pages of postscript subroutines doesn't exactly thrill me to
the bone.

1) Does anyone know of any documents, books or whatever that give a
description of how these subroutines work? (any and all pointers would 
be appreciated)

I have a few other questions which maybe easier to answer and could
probably be worked out if I didn't have to ask the first question but
since I do here they are 

2) How do the stem hints interact with the alignment zones?

3) What is the operation of the ``dotsection'' command?

If I've just missed the answer in the black book a page reference
would be fine.

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Jon Windle, Software Engineer.               | Net:   jon@research.canon.oz.au
Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone: +61 2 805 2913
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