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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: CRT technology?
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 16:07:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 16:07:40 1987
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> ...Anyhow, back to the point about CRTs matching print technology. If you
> deal with matching images on the screen and the paper you develop very
> little doubt that we are going to obscene contortions to try to
> resolve the differences, it's a huge waste of time and effort (and
> doesn't even work very well.)  Two different font sets...

Um, it's worse than that, Barry.  Don't forget that screens and printers
have different kinds of nonlinearities in their presentation of the image.
Given that getting good-looking text requires different font sets depending
on whether your printer uses a write-white or write-black process, what
makes you think there is any possibility of getting fonts that will look
the same on the screen and on the page?  I don't see it happening soon.
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