said:
>But then the TTF files would be _larger_ than the combined PFB/OFM files.
>And they aren't. The TTF files are smaller. (Lurkers: Look in
>\PSFONTS\)
This a very limited metric. You need to compare apples to apples. TTF
fonts shipped with WINOS2 are low quality. The high quality TTF fonts,
such as th so called MS web fonts, are comparable in size to the
PostScript fonts.
>The PostScript files, being larger, must contain more rendering info.
Without knowing the encoding method, there is no basis for this statement.
What if the TTF font encoding is LZW compressed internally?
>(Seeking back into my fuzziest of neurons, I believe TrueType renders
>using simple curves while PostScript uses more sophisticated Bezier
>curves, and this was the thrust of Adobe's attack on TrueType's quality.)
Both are Bezier. See:
http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/ttvst1.html
TrueType's are simplier. Google for:
truetype bezier
if more links.
IIRC, I'm pretty sure PostScript came before TrueType.
http://www.visiongraphics-inc.com/tools/fonttech.html
seems to support this recollection.
Steven
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