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From: mills@adobe.com (Dan Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Using a postscript printer for previewing?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 18:28:55 GMT
References: <1989Dec20.200005.13075@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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In article <1989Dec20.200005.13075@ibmpcug.co.uk> ccain@ibmpcug.co.uk (chris cain) writes:
> ...
> An interesting sidepoint to the hinting is that it distorts the font
> shapes badly enough that in a large number of adobe fonts 2 complete
> sets of outline data is included one used for devices below 600dpi
> with a regularised outline and hints and one uses no hints for devices
> more than  600dpi using presumably the undistorted font shape. What price
> resolution independance now !.
> ...

Hogwash. The hints don't distort anything. Nor does the rendering software
which makes use of those hints. The specification of the Type 1 font format,
available 1st Qtr '90, will make this abundantly clear.

And by the way, the "large number" of fonts with two complete sets of
outline data is exactly 10. That's less than 2% of today's library, and
since we have no intention of creating more such fonts, that percentage will
only decrease.

Dan Mills
Manager of Typography
Adobe Systems Incorporated