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- From: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
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- Subject: Re: Re: What W Processor will save a file to Postscript
- Message-ID: <wfaust.087s@aurea.hotb.sub.org>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 03:23:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.193802.12164@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <45325@shamash.cdc.com> <62489@cup.portal.com> <Brq4Gr.Hu0@DMI.USherb.CA> <1992Jul22.110633.2696@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Jul22.110633.2696@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au> u2112539@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au writes:
- >In article <Brq4Gr.Hu0@DMI.USherb.CA>, vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT) writes:
- >> Kevin, any idea why developpers of Excellence! and ProWrite haven't managed
- >> yet to get nice output when using Compugraphics fonts? I mean, how hard is it
- >> to check the resolution of the printer you selected, and scale the fonts
- >> properly to match that resolution, and dump the resulting hi-res bitmap
- >> to the printer? This would give output as nice as with PageStream or PPage.
- >>
- >> A few months ago, Mark of New Horizons was saying it was C='s fault for
- >> not having the bullet.library available yet.... what's so important about
- >> that library that you can't do currently with 2.04 CG fonts?
- >>
- >> Marc
- >
- > I can see many problems with sizing fonts acording to your printer but
- >this could be a very mem hungry way but easy to implement.
-
- Well, we had this discussion previously... the main problem is
- the way how to get the font metrics. Bullet.library allows you to
- access the original CG font metrics. Currently you have to use
- TextExtent() to get most (not all!) of the required data. Now
- according to New Horizon (who was it, Mark?) the metrics yelled by
- TextExtent() do not match the real CG font metrics. The are
- somehow altered by diskfont.library.
-
- That's what have been said... this is what I experienced:
-
- Maybe it's true, TextExtent() does not yell the original CG
- metrics. Anyway, they do come close and are more than enough for
- getting nearly perfect reults (all you miss is ligatures and that
- stuff... but this is not supported by ProWrite anyway, or is it?).
-
- Maybe I should prove that: the CanonLBP laser printer driver
- allows you to automaticly download fonts. The download font
- metrics are generated by the driver using TextExtend(). If I use
- these downloaded fonts I get perfect results (yes, also with
- ProWrite).
-
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