Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:369 comp.lang.postscript:1087 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: METAFONT & PostScript Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 88 02:25:22 GMT References: <902@cps3xx.UUCP> <10417@s.ms.uky.edu> <422@trigraph.UUCP> Sender: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Followup-To: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 20 In-reply-to: john@trigraph.UUCP's message of 27 Oct 88 19:03:34 GMT In article <422@trigraph.UUCP> john@trigraph.UUCP (John Chew) writes: If however you design a proper algorithmic PostScript font (one which makes rasterization decisions based on the current font size), then the result will be every bit as good as, and quite possibly identical to that of METAFONT. I thought of that, for about 10 seconds and rejected it. Metafont is SLOW. On a 68020 @ 25 Mhz running sun os it takes about 2 minutes to generate ONE font. I would hate to imagine it on a 68000 @ 8 Mhz. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)268-2292 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet mrd@clutx.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ Clarkson Archive Server archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ------------------------------------------------------------