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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: IV24 and OPALVISION owners
- Keywords: Adobe fonts don't follow the alleged "2/3 rule"
- Message-ID: <54864@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:01:01 GMT
- References: <James_Hastings-Trew.0hv2@telepro.UUCP>
- Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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- In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0hv2@telepro.UUCP>
- James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes:
- > The uppercase "E"s from Font1 and Font2 would be the same size, at a given
- > point size. At 72 points, both would be 48 points tall.
-
- That certainly follows from your 2/3 rule, but is not true
- of Adobe fonts. (I'm sitting at a NeXT, you can't lie to
- me!) Are you saying Adobe doesn't know jack about font
- sizing? I'm really curious now.
-
- Here's a demonstration if you have a PostScript engine
- handy. It will show 3 Es from 3 different families, all at
- 72 point. They are clearly both physically and optically
- different sizes:
-
-
- %!PS-Adobe-2.0
- %%Title: Are 72 point Es the same size? No.
- %%Creator: Allen B
- %%Purpose: QED
-
- 72 72 moveto
- /Helvetica findfont 72 scalefont setfont
- (E) show
- /Times-Roman findfont 72 scalefont setfont
- (E) show
- /Courier findfont 72 scalefont setfont
- (E) show
-
- showpage
-