Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!eos!labrea!polya!rokicki From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Screen fonts/Printer fonts Keywords: Fonts screen printer bitmap OpenFont() beautiful output Message-ID: <7766@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 16 Mar 89 04:10:18 GMT References: <6668@ecsvax.UUCP> Sender: Tomas G. Rokicki Reply-To: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) Distribution: na Organization: Stanford University Lines: 20 > Would it be possible to have font descriptions (metafont perhaps?) > someplace, and have a call similar to OpenFont(), but which takes > the bits/inch in x and y and the desired size of the font as parameters Not to rain on your parade, but here are some specifics about METAFONT: - Requires about 650K to run - Takes 15 minutes to generate a 128 char font on a standard 68000 Amiga - Requires about 200K of source to be read in for same font - Program itself is 200K+ Building bitmap fonts automatically from practically any level of description and expecting them to look good is a very difficult problem . . . oh, you say you want legible fonts? Double that difficulty . . . even Adobe supplies bitmap versions of the common fonts for Display PostScript, rather than trying to generate the compromised fonts you would get at that size . . . -tom