[WinMac] Re: fonts


Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:21:23 -0500


        Alex,

        I'm just going by how Fontographer handles the importing of metrics.

        Also, page layout apps manipulate the code a bit differently. It's too
late for me to go into detail this morning. :(

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 10:52 PM 1/19/99 -0500, Alex wrote:
>> No, an instance of the kerning and spacing tables for each scaleable
>>typeface are stored in the bitmap (screen) font. That is why you have the
>>choice to either import them in Fontographer, have it generate a new set
>>automatically, and/or adjust kerning pairs manually.
>
>I believe you are wrong on this one. The following is a quote from
>"Digital Prepress Complete" by Donnie O'Quinn & Matt LeClair, published
>by Haydeb Books (a very good book):
>
>"...ATM efectively combines screen and printer font information. By
>taking a peek into the printer font information, ATM determines what your
>type should look like. It then renders your bitmap type as smoothly as
>possible onscreen, regardless of point size, zoom factors, rotation, or
>scaling... All ATM needs to acomplish this is one screen font (regardless
>of its point size) and the printer font... If you're working in Windows,
>ATM works without screen fonts being present, creating onscreen bitpmaps
>from existing .pfb files, or the outline fonts used on the Windows
>platform."
>
>If you think about it it wouldn't make sense for the screen bitmap font
>to contain the metrics and kerning tables (which it does not). For
>example in Quark, you can edit pair kerning and general tracking and this
>info is sent down to the printer.
>
>Alex Dearden
>pata@doglover.com

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