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From: dag@per2.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Wanted: a metafont program for a "callibration" font
Keywords: metafont, mf, font
Message-ID: <886@per2.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 18:55:21 GMT
Organization: Persoft Inc., Madison, WI
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Is there a metafont description for a small (few characters) font
which is specificly designed for assisting in determining the values
for the printer specific variables for a new printer?  Such a font
along with a TeX file to create a test page would be quite useful.

This font should have various combinations of thin, thick, vertical,
horizontal, diagonal, curved, solid and hollow areas in various characters
so that the desired blackness, etc., settings could be adjusted until
this special font looked good enough, and then the other fonts could
be generated with a consistent look.

I've discovered that simply using a single font from the cm family
does not produce a sufficient representative sample.  I've been
using cmr10, cmbx10, cmsl10, cmss10, cmr8, cmmi10, and cmti10, but
these take too long to run through mf each time and also may not be
sufficent.

If there is no "printer mode calibration" font, I will create one and
post it to the net, but I'd rather be lazy and get one from someone
else (also, I'm a novice at metafont, I would think an expert would
do a better job).

						Daniel A. Glasser
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