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From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font quality on the LaserWriter SC
Message-ID: <3980@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 88 03:10:55 GMT
References: <12371156232.110.P.PRIAPUS@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU>
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Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: laserwriter fonts
Summary: LW SC fonts are bitmaps

In article <12371156232.110.P.PRIAPUS@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU> P.PRIAPUS@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU (Bill Lipa) writes:
>Anyway, I would like to know how the high-quality
>fonts are handled on the SC, the QuickDraw LaserWriter. If they are bitmaps,
>I would imagine that you can't print the variety of sizes that the current
>LaserWriters offer at high quality. Is this true or do SC's do special font
>processing to alleviate this problem?

This is true.  It works just like an ImageWriter only more so - you
have to have the font four times the size for highest quality
printing.  That is, to print a twelve point font at highest quality,
you have to have a 48 point font in your System or Suitcase file.




Stew Rubenstein
Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
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