Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:378 comp.lang.postscript:1093
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee
From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: METAFONT & PostScript
Message-ID: <2553@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 88 15:39:58 GMT
References: <3455@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: University of Hawaii
Lines: 21

From article <3455@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, by tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane):
" ...
" I disagree.  Chew seems to believe that Metafont's only virtue is that it
" allows for nonlinear scaling of font dimensions.  This is true, but is only
" part of the story.  Metafont also uses extremely careful (= costly)
" algorithms for digitization: i.e., deciding exactly which pixels to blacken

More costly work doesn't mean better results.  While Metafont-generated
characters at 300dpi look very nice, at 78dpi they look awful.  Or at
least they did in my one experiment -- maybe I could have tuned the
parameters ...

" ...
" While we are on the subject, it's not clear to me that PostScript truly
" allows for nonlinear font scaling.

Nor to me.  If somebody has done this, how about posting at least a
sample of a font, to show us how it's done?  I wish, also, that a ps-guru
would post an example of adding character shapes to a built-in font.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu