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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Three new "open" font formats...
Summary: Apple's fonts have hints
Keywords: apple, outline fonts
Message-ID: <3240@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 19:12:55 GMT
References: <7438@hoptoad.uucp> <2686@osiris.sics.se>
Reply-To: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Organization: Michigan State University, Computer Science Dept.
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In article <2686@osiris.sics.se> dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin) writes:
>Do Apple's new fonts contain "hints" like Sun's and Adobe's?
>I understand that that is essential for low resolution devices.

  Someone from Apple posted a note on comp.sys.mac about this.  He
said that there are hints, they work on rotated text, and they are
good enough that Apple will probably not be distributing bitmap
versions of their fonts (he said that down to 8 or 9-point fonts, the
hints produce clean characters).

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