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Re: TrueType font caution [message #20736]

Fri, 21 July 2000 00:00

Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <397889DB.FC634@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu>, Harvey Rarback
<rarback@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> This reminds me of some more disadvantages I found comparing IDL's TT fonts
> with hardware fonts on the X device:
> - Drawing is much slower (about a factor of 4 for Helvetica fonts displayed
> to an Exceed PC X server)
> - They look lousier.

I find the TT fonts to be unreadable in a medium-sized X window. I've
decided to use Hershey fonts for X display (2D or 3D), PS for printed
2D output, and TT only for printed 3D output. I should have pointed
out that the PS files with TT fonts *print* fine if all I do is send
the file to the printer. The problems occur when I try to edit the
graphs in Illustrator.

Ken

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		Re: TrueType font caution By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 21 July 2000 00:00
		Re: TrueType font caution By: noymer on Fri, 21 July 2000 00:00
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