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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Universal font standard
Message-ID: <701@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 88 02:45:05 GMT
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Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson)
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In article <7645@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>Isomorphic fonts (ones that are simply linearly
>scaled for different sizes) look ugly except near their original
>design size.  If we're going to put a lot of effort into font
>description, let's do it right.

Doug is right.  Isomorphic fonts look nice iff you have enough bits to
represent them, which implies that low-resolution fonts should be represented
using bitmaps, while high-resolution fonts should be represented using
outlines.
-russ


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