Re: TAN: Fonts

At 23:41 +0200 29.7.1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
>> I'm using Fontmonger to construct the font.  I don't recall if it can
>> make a PostScript font or not.  Will I continue to have this problem
>> only with the screen display (which I can live with), or will the
>> gaps appear with some printers, as well?
>>
>
>Well, speculatively, I would expect that with the more modern,
>cheap GDI printers the same problem _could_ occur. Those are the
>printers that use the windows GDI subsystem to prepare the printed
>page. I've never seen it happen, though, but then, we still use
>the same HP deskjet we bought about seven or eight years ago. No
>problems with most laserjets, either.
>
>However, I've never had a problem with either PostScript
>or TrueType using X Window or GhostScript, so there's always a
>solution, even if it entails installing another OS ;-).
Or use TeX! :-)

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