steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard) (07/09/90)
I am having problems with the quality of the 300dpi 10 point fonts as distributed. I am using a HP laserjet II in combination dvi3ps and a commercial postscript interprator for the ibmpc (goscript). In general parts of the characters are to thin (the diagonal descender of the y for example) while other parts are too thick (eg. the right hand side of the a and the d) I have used MicroTeX from Addison-Wesley with the same printer / interprator combination and the quality is much better. With there fonts all the lines are thicker. Am I doing something wrong? I've tried the write white code provided with cm fonts, but there is no improvement. Has anyone got a HPLJ definition? I have tried to rebuild the fonts with METAFONT specifying a larger value for 'blacker', but this does not appear to help. Steve -- Steve.Bleazard@RoboBar.Co.Uk | Phone: +44 81 991 1142 x153 Snr Software Engineer, Robobar Ltd. | Fax: +44 81 998 8343 (G3) 22 Wadsworth Road, Perivale. | Middx., UB6 7JD ENGLAND. | ...!ukc!robobar!steve
clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) (07/11/90)
In article <1990Jul9.082904.11449@robobar.co.uk> steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard) writes: > I am having problems with the quality of the 300dpi 10 point fonts as > distributed. I am using a HP laserjet II in combination dvi3ps and a > commercial postscript interprator for the ibmpc (goscript). > In general parts of the characters are to thin (the diagonal descender of the > y for example) while other parts are too thick (eg. the right hand side > of the a and the d) Are the problems large enough to be the fonts themselves, or a resolution problem? There's a trick that some packages use - namely, round off the X and Y coordinates to the nearest 1/300th of an inch. Certainly on postscript printers this will sometimes prevent +- 1 pixel problems. This can often be seen by printing a whole pile of "i"'s or "l"'s as a string and some of them might have slightly varying widths. -- Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc, {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis Ferret mailing list: eci386!ferret-list, psroff mailing list: eci386!psroff-list
mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (07/19/90)
>In article <1990Jul9.082904.11449@robobar.co.uk> steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard) writes: >> I am having problems with the quality of the 300dpi 10 point fonts as >> distributed. I am using a HP laserjet II in combination dvi3ps and a >> commercial postscript interprator for the ibmpc (goscript). > >> In general parts of the characters are to thin (the diagonal descender of the >> y for example) while other parts are too thick (eg. the right hand side >> of the a and the d) > Are you using actual TeX fonts? I use GoScript using Tomas Rokicki's dvips and it works fine. I think I MIGHT have had to reposition the horizontal positioning of the letters by 1/600 inch by changing one macro in the header file. Works fine. BUT ... there is a bug in GoScript so that all bitmaps have all horizontal lines - including runs of pixels in characters - made one pixel too wide. They know about this. And, to date, have not called with a fix. You have to compensate by turning down the darkness control. This is a genuine bug in GoScript. Doug McDonald