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- From: delahunt@adobe.com (Jim DeLaHunt)
- Subject: Re: Postscript Font Scaling & Reduction
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.174800.23493@adobe.com>
- Summary: Hints are based on pixel height, not point size.
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- References: <1992Nov18.045514.4005@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> <1992Nov18.181137.25836@adobe.com> <4007@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:48:00 GMT
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- In article <4007@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
- >I was under the impression that the "hints" allow the font machinery
- >to do adjustments based on target point size. From my experiments, linear
- >font scaling doesn't look that great.
-
- The hints make adjustments based on the number of device pixel spanned by
- the scaled outline, not based on the point size per se. Hinting will have
- the same effect on a 10-point font on a 300 dpi device as on a 5-point font
- on a 600 dpi device.
-
- >Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
-
- --Jim DeLaHunt, Developer Support, Adobe Systems Incorporated
- delahunt@mv.us.adobe.com ...!{apple,decwrl}!adobe!delahunt +1-415-962-3790
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