evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (02/26/91)
I have recently come into posession of the PacificPage P*E for my LJ2P.
(I was told the HP cart was better, but this one was unavoidably cheap).
To drive it, I have compiled and installed Tomas Rokicki's dvips
software, version 5.47.
Now the question. I've found that there are small but noticable problems
with the character spacing when using some of the built-in Adobe-clone
fonts. It's rarely more than a dot or two off, but it's noticable enough
to bother me.
The problem varies depending on the typeface - the Bitstream equivalent
to Avante Garde appears to be the worst affected, The Palatino clone
the least affected. There worst example is the Avante Garde capital "S" --
dvips puts far too much space around it on either side.
This leads to two questions:
1) How different are the Bitstream fonts from the Adobe ones in terms of
looks or spacing?
2) Do there exist 'afm' or 'tfm' files for the Bistream fonts? If not, can
the standard Adobe ones be easily modified?
Many thanks.
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Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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