Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cxt105 Organization: Penn State University Date: Tuesday, 21 May 1991 17:43:26 EDT From: Christopher Tate Message-ID: <91141.174326CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: FontMonger conversion to TrueType Distribution: comp References: <19746@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> In article , glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) says: >I haven't seen any FontMonger output, so I don't really know if it would >qualify as "lousy" in my book. Nevertheless, I'm not surprised that the >conversion is imperfect, especially for small sizes. > >So a better question is "Why is the conversion from PS1 to TT so lousy?" My guess is that it's because the hinting methods are rather different, and FontMonger's translation between the two is probably rather limited simply by having to *translate* a PostScript hint to TrueType. A human could design a new set of hints to optimize TrueType results, but the program has no such capability -- it doesn't "know" what the font is supposed to look like, and can't evaluate the "optimum" method of hinting it in TrueType. ------- Christopher Tate | "The soldier came knocking upon the Queen's door; | He said 'I am not fighting for you anymore....'" cxt105@psuvm.psu.edu | cxt105@psuvm.bitnet | -- Suzanne Vega