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From: mkant@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Scaleable fonts
Message-ID: <8212@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 02:42:49 GMT
References: <203@van-bc.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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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?

The cost of licensing fonts and so-called "hinting" technology is
pretty steep.  

If you are creating bitmaps at resolutions greater than 24 lines to
the em-square, I think you'll find naive scan-conversion to be usable.
It all depends on what you'd be using the fonts for.

--mkant