ken@uf.msc.umn.edu (Kenneth Chin-Purcell) (03/25/89)
We are using xps, a postscript viewer for X windows. It only comes
with Helvetica and Times fonts.
Is there a non-encoded symbol font available? Free?
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-- Ken (aka ken@msc.umn.edu)jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson) (06/08/90)
When you print with the Symbol font (from a Mac) integral signs and the various brackets below 24pt everything behaves normally. However above 24pt the character is constructed from two characters (at least the screen font contains upper and lower halves). This is sort of nice but a 24pt integral is much different from a 25pt integral and often you can see a glitch where the two halves meet. Anyway I suspect this 'constructing' 1 character from two is handled by the Mac (nothing to do with postscript) What is intreresting me is what happens as you scale these characters to larger point sizes. The height of the character is increased but the width and lineweight is not. Is it possible that this behavior is 'built in' to the font definition or is the Mac putting a 'scale 1 10' into the ps file? I'm sure there are other examples of where you might want a non-proportional scaling. Just how flexable is a font description? George Jefferson jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu