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From: bowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon E Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Universal font standard
Message-ID: <10015@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 15:16:48 GMT
References: <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: bowen@joey.UUCP (Devon E Bowen)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
Lines: 21
Keywords: common

In article <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Pretty wild idea, huh ?
>
>Before I go any further: Comments ?

Well, the problem is that as resolution increases (or the size of the fonts
get bigger) you're going to have missing information. That's always been a
problem with bitmap fonts. I'm for pushing something more along the lines
of what PostScript does. By defining the font as a collection of lines and
curves, magnification only makes the fonts bigger. All the continuity is
still there even if you blow up the character to a full page. If a standard
would be made, it would have to do something like this in order to satisfy
everyone and to allow for changes in technology.

				    Devon Bowen (KA2NRC)
				    University at Buffalo

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