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Re: rotated postscript fonts [message #27984]

Wed, 14 November 2001 17:41

noymer
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Registered: June 1999

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David Fanning writes:

> Use True-type fonts, which are PostScript vector fonts
> that are rotatable in 3D space.

Everything above is correct except the word PostScript, if I'm not mistaken.

PostScript and TT are different specifications. IIRC, PS uses cubic shapes and
TT uses quadratic, and therefore render with fewer calculations.

PostScript fonts are rotatable in 3D space---but not by IDL.

Andrew

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		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: noymer on Wed, 14 November 2001 17:41
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: David Fanning on Wed, 14 November 2001 15:47
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: nobody@nowhere.com (S on Wed, 14 November 2001 15:28
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: Logan Lindquist on Wed, 14 November 2001 11:02
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: David Fanning on Wed, 14 November 2001 08:33

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