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Re: FT2 design question
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: FT2 design question |
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Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:48:16 GMT |
> Adobe said they will continue to use it there (it's indeed indispensible
> there), but they also said that that's a *very* special case of MM, capable
> of doing things plain MM doesn't support. I think the main issue is
> adapting the width axis on a per character basis (to match the metrics of
> the original font).
>
> [...]
>
> - optical scaling can be an excellent thing to have for printed
> matter.
pdfTeX recently started to have this implemented (one of the aspects
of Hermann Zapf's hz algorithm) -- so this feature is worth
considering.
> Have you seen the FontWorks stuff? They have a technology they call
> "stroke based fonts". It seems a very elegant approach.
I've just read a headline about it... Is the format patent-free? Is
it documented? Is it freely available?
Well, John Hobby's (the creator of Metapost) doctoral dissertation
handles something similar, so in case this is patented ... :-)
Werner
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