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- From: friedan@raunvis.hi.is (Daniel Friedan)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: quality of low res pk files?
- Message-ID: <friedan.722135304@raunvis>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:08:24 GMT
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- A small and very naive question about tex fonts --
-
- I've been looking at pk files with resolutions of 100 dpi and 104 dpi
- (for reading on screen in oztex).
-
- It seems to me that the 104 fonts look better than the 100 fonts. In
- particular, the capital letters of cmr12 in the 100 fonts look bold and
- stand out in a distracting way from the rest of the text, while the
- capital letters in the 104 fonts look fine.
-
- Would the difference be due to some subtle preference of metafont for 104dpi
- over 100dpi? or to different methods of manufacture of the pk files
- (about which I know nothing) if indeed there is room for variation in
- the manufacture of pk files.
-
- At present I'm planning to use the 100dpi fonts because I can easily get
- the fonts in a number of magsteps up from 100 (110, 120, 131, 144, 173, 207).
-
- I'd like to know if I have to accept this minor imperfection or if it
- might be possible to find or make better quality 100dpi fonts.
-
- thanks for any help,
-
- Daniel Friedan <friedan@raunvis.hi.is>
-