Re: Font, layout units et al.

From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 10:17:28 EDT

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At 5:43 PM +0200 5/24/02, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>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?

No.

Leonard

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