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From: elliott@glacier.steinmetz
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Universal font standard
Message-ID: <10361@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 11 Apr 88 19:31:32 GMT
References: <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM>
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In article <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Like maybe use ascii characters:
>
>Thus the problem is only to convert one computers format to and from 
>this format and universality is guarenteed between all other computers
>supporting this.

One problem with this idea is that a simple picture of the characters
in a font isn't the end of the story. You need to know some
information about the overall size of the font, and for each character
what the baseline and origin are, what kerning limits are, and so
forth.

And on some machines this information doesn't even exist to start
with...


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