jon@research.canon.oz.au (Jon Windle) (05/17/91)
I have been reading the ``Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1'' and would like to understand how the ``flex'' and ``hinting'' work. I am however a novice at postscript and the thought of wading unaided through 4 pages of postscript subroutines doesn't exactly thrill me to the bone. 1) Does anyone know of any documents, books or whatever that give a description of how these subroutines work? (any and all pointers would be appreciated) I have a few other questions which maybe easier to answer and could probably be worked out if I didn't have to ask the first question but since I do here they are 2) How do the stem hints interact with the alignment zones? 3) What is the operation of the ``dotsection'' command? If I've just missed the answer in the black book a page reference would be fine. -- Jon Windle, Software Engineer. | Net: jon@research.canon.oz.au Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone: +61 2 805 2913 P.O. Box 313 North Ryde, NSW, Australia 2113 | Fax: +61 2 805 2929