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Re: fonts

Posted by ballendo@y...
on 2000-09-10 23:51:36 UTC
Jon Elson wrote:

<snip>Unfortunately, PostScript and many other systems use bitmaps to
createthe printed fonts.

Postscript IS a vector based description language, including fonts.
The vectors are TRANSLATED into raster bitmaps for output.

This is also the case for windows truetype fonts.

Don Lancaster's site, the guru's lair at: www.tinaja.com has a WEALTH
of info re: postscript. Don is something of a postscript Zealot.
Books, etc.

Anyone interested in PS fonts: There is a public domain program (with
source code available) called ghostscript which duplicates the PS
functionality.

Somewhere on a hard drive, I have a TTF description(pulled from the
web), also. If someone's interested, I'll look for it.

Ballendo

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