paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (03/14/89)
In article <15780@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:
-> 2. Jaggies in PostScript
-> If you print bitmap fonts on a PostScript printer, they will
-> be smoother than on most dot-matrix printers (especially if
-> you select a smoothing algorithm) but they are *still* bitmap
-> fonts which are defined with dots rather than vectors, curves,
-> etc. The vector, or 'structured' (who came up with that odd
-> name, anyway, what makes them any more structured than dots?)
-> fonts in the PostScript format are defined quite differently
-> and loaded as PostScript 'dictionaries'.
However, if the bitmaps were at the same resolution as the printer
resolution, the output would look very nice without jaggies. Of course
the bitmap files would be a lot larger than the corresponding structured
ones. The only point that I'm trying to make is that resolutions
much higher than those displayable on the Amiga can be generated on the
Amiga and output to high resolution devices with excellent results.
-> Hope this info helps,
-> LadyHawke@cup.portal.com
--
-+= SAM =+-
"the best things in life are free"
ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov