dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/28/91)
In article <1991Mar27.172248.22659@watmath.waterloo.edu>, nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes: > The problem with gray scaling (that's what the /ox and /oy commands do) > is speed ... even if the scaling is optimized for even values (I suggest > you use 4 for both) it is still slow. EM warns of this in the document. > What happens is that v show the fonts `real size'. Since we are using > 300dpi fonts, that explains the huge size on the screen. > The best solution, I think, would be to use smaller fonts. Something > like 90 and 75 dpi which are better suited for the screen. Hmm, I haven't really noticed any serious degradation in speed due to grey scaling (I use as my default /o2/s2). Then again, I have a 25Mhz 386. As for getting better quality using low res fonts, I have yet to see a previewer where that's the case. I think possibly MF is to blame in producing poor-quality low resolution bitmaps, but it seems that even the dumbest remapping of pixels (DVItoVDU for various vector-like displays is a good example) produces superior output to the low res bitmaps. Plus you save a pile of diskspace. -dh Don Hosek dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography 714-625-0147