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- From: "steve willer" <steve.willer@canrem.com>
- Subject: truetype hidden bitm
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.3151.1993@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "steve willer" <steve.willer@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 17 Nov 92 08:27:45 EST
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- >Judging on the fact that the origianal font (when displayed
- >on screen) is perfect, it is my guess that Microsoft has
- >hidden some bitmaps in their font that are used automatically
- >by Windows for on screen display. Dows anybody know anything
- >about this? Is there some way to bundle bitmaps back into
- >a TrueType font? Is there more to this than meets the eye?
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- That's a phenomenon called "hinting." It gives extra information for low
- point sizes. Given the fact that you can also stretch, skew and rotate
- TrueType fonts, I doubt they use bitmaps.
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