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From: FLEGLEI@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Type 1 vs. Type 3
Message-ID: <91160.192807FLEGLEI@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Date: 9 Jun 91 23:28:07 GMT
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Type 3 is an unencrypted user reserved PostScript font specification
that allows filling and shading (not allowed in Type 1) & some different
stroking specifications than Type 1. Type 3 was Adobe's sop to non-
registered type developers and individuals. Type 1 is encrypted & I
think compressed in the same process allowing smaller and faster trans-
mission & output. It also has some slightly different specs on numbers
of BCP's, I think, than Type 3. All in all Type 1 is effectively the
best PS standard across Macintosh.