forrest@sybase.com (09/24/89)
The news is out the Adobe will release a lot of information that
wasn't public before. Here's hopping that all this will finally
result in Postscript format cm fonts so we can quit wasting time
sending bitmaps.
Jon Forrest
forrest@sybase.com
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415-596-3422ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (09/24/89)
|The news is out the Adobe will release a lot of information that |wasn't public before. Here's hopping that all this will finally |result in Postscript format cm fonts so we can quit wasting time |sending bitmaps. Actually for those willing to pay, CM outline fonts have been available for some time from some company whose name eludes me now. From what I hear scaled fonts are not quite as good as tailored fonts, but one can live with that to cut down disk storage. Also if your DVI printing is slow you probably have an inefficient driver. We get close to full rated speed after startup time. Part of the trick is to download width information and use show on as long a string as possible.
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek) (09/25/89)
In article <6247@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@sybase.com writes: >The news is out the Adobe will release a lot of information that >wasn't public before. Here's hopping that all this will finally >result in Postscript format cm fonts so we can quit wasting time >sending bitmaps. At resolutions under ~700dpi, it is not as economical as you might think to use PS outlines rather than bitmaps. If one uses compressed bitmaps, it is very difficult to have outline descriptions which take less time to transmit unless one has a document with many scalings of the same font. Also, I believe that the rasterization algorithm used by PostScript is (even with hinting) not as good as that obtained with a well-designed Metafont. This is not to say that PS outlines are thorougly useless, but I certainly don't think that they are a match for bitmaps with the current PostScript technology. -dh -- Don Hosek | Internet: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU | Bitnet: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET | Phone: 714-920-0655 (I used to be a Mudder, but I got better)