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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Smoothing enlarged bitmap fonts
Message-ID: <609@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 10 Apr 88 21:52:30 GMT
References: <10201@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <8553@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Most conventional typesetter manufacturers refuse to scale UP, but will
scale DOWN.

About five years ago I was in charge of a project to buy a new production
system for the MIT student newspaper.

At that time was common to have four font masters for digital typesetters
with about 1200dpi resolution.  I vaguely remember 12, 36, 72 and 144
point for one manufacturer.

The CRS/Alphatype company was a standout at the time because they had a
different master for every point size, and an overall resolution about
twice the norm, 2576dpi or so.  The Alphatype was the first commercial
typesetter used by the TeX project.  (We were gonna got a copy of their
hacks, but we didn't buy an Alphatype; we later got a Cg8400.)
	/rich $alz
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