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Subject: Fonts on Merganthaler
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Compugraphics, like Merganthaler, creates characters 4pt to 127.5pt range
using one master (which is designed at 64pt). They also use some sort of
smoothing mechanism (hardware or software I don't know) to get their
1300dpi fonts.

   Dean Guenther
   Washington State University
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