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- From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: Clipped Ascenders
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.015925.722@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:59:25 GMT
- References: <1jnh8jINNjrn@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1jnh8jINNjrn@gap.caltech.edu> ldf@tati.ipac.caltech.edu (Linda
- Fullmer) writes:
- * When joining a single line of text to the top of a circular
- * path in Aldus Freehand (on the Macintosh), tops of some
- * ascenders are "cropped-off" uniformly above the highest
- * part of the arc.
-
- * I'm using type1 fonts and ATM. Increasing the leading
- * doesn't help. This only happens at large point-sizes and
- * only with some fonts (mostly share-ware cursive style
- * fonts).
-
- Possibly the bounding box information in the font is bogus -- that
- could cause the problem you're seeing.
-
- ........ Henry
-