Re: Font, layout units et al.

From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 11:43:26 EDT

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    Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net> wrote in
    news:3CEE5F32.17705.1DF8C4E@localhost:

    > What we should be doing is to request in both cases the same
    > point size, e.g. 12 points, but ask the system to apply a
    > transform to the fonts based on the target device resolution,
    > i.e., ~100 dpi for the screen and 1440 dpi for the PostScript
    > output.

    Wouldn't this stop hinting of text at small font sizes from
    working? One of the reasons 10 and 12 point Times New Roman,
    Arial, Verdana, Minion Web &c. looks so good, is that they're
    manually hinted.

    -- 
    Karl Ove Hufthammer
    


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