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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need Screen Font
Message-ID: <3621@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 89 08:52:18 GMT
References: <77894@felix.UUCP> <84847@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <84847@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>There is a program out called FontSizer (about $80 at Macconnection and
>computerware) that will let you create any size bitmap for any font you
>want, which can then be installed in your system file for use. Sounds like
>it's just what the doctor ordered. 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that FontSizer will only
work on non-Adobe PostScript fonts. Adobe really protects the outline shapes
of their fonts, and there really isn't a way to get to them. FontSizer takes
its original data from the PostScript font, so in the case of Adobe you're
out of luck. (Adobe also protects their "hints," the small corrections that
maintain print quality at small type sizes. It is the "hints" that is the cause
of many peoples' conviction that Adobe has the best quality fonts. Apparently
the hints are implemented using PostScript commands that are not publicly docu-
mented. Other type foundries like CompuGraphic and BitStream have their own
equivalents of hints.)

FontSizer, I understand, DOES work on 3rd-party generated PostScript fonts,
which in almost all cases are generated using Altsys Fontographer. So if you
have Casady or someone else's PostScript font, FontSizer will do the job.

Am I wrong in this information? WILL FontSizer operate on Adobe fonts? If it
does, I'm buying one yesterday; the Adobe restriction has been stopping me
till now.

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
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