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From: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Universal font standard
Message-ID: <296@laura.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 08:29:44 GMT
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Reply-To: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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Posted: Fri Apr 15 09:29:44 1988

In article <8620@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>Perhaps I misinterpreted Karlow, but I understood this 15,000 line per
>em raster to be conceptual or at least a transient product during the
>generation of a lower resolution raster. As the appendix indicates,
>there is a semi-hierarchy of storage formats. My interpretation is that
>Ikarus stores glyphs as outlines primarily and the resolution of the
>coordinate system is 15k per em.

That's the way I understood it, too.  I also talked to the URW people at
a fair recently.  They've shown Mac and PC versions of their font design
software which looked really nice.
I've also bought the book there (the english version, that is :-), and
can recommend it.

	Hans-Martin

PS:  In a recent article I asked if someone has pointers to grayscale fonts.
Obviously this article got lost, or no one knows what grayscale fonts are.
Karlow talks about them, but when I asked him whether such fonts were
available from URW, he said no.  Looks like the market demand for such fonts
is not high enough.  I simply can't understand why everybody is still using
these ugly bitmapped fonts on CRTs when color/grayscale displays of sufficient
resolution are available.  I tested the grayscale example of the book on 2
differebt machines, and the characters look much more readable than the
b/w bitmap characters.
So here's my question again:  Does anyone in this group have pointers to
grayscale fonts (any format, as long as it's documented somewhere) ?
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