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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Scaleable fonts
Summary: scaleable fonts
Message-ID: <18032@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 26 Feb 90 12:40:20 GMT
References: <203@van-bc.UUCP>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <203@van-bc.UUCP>, jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) writes:
> I am writing an application in which I need to generate high-quality
> font glyphs at arbitrary sizes and raster resolutions.  Since this is
> an interactive application, Cons'ing up a mode_def and spawning METAFONT
> to generate the font is not an option.
> 
> Does anyone license outline or vector fonts and the routines needed
> to rasterize them?

Not without an exhorbant fee.  However, the Hershey fonts might help,
tough to get good hi-resolution though. There is a german company that
has a scalable font technologi called ikarus.  Bit stream might be your
best bet, as they have a PC based outline font package that allows
the creation of bitmapped fonts in arbitrary sizes for the HPlaserjet.

Cheers
Woody
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> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> 	--jtc
> -- 
> J.T. Conklin
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