Re: Comments on Microsoft ClearType technology

["Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>]

At 14:20 2001-02-03 -0800, Pierre MacKay wrote:
> The page you sent indicates what
> the \fcharset is for, but if it
> provides a link to show what each fcharset actually encodes, I
> haven't found it yet.  The list of N values is parsimonious in
> the extreme.  I have seen at least ten values in actual RTF
> files that are not shown in this list.  RTF is thick with
> that sort of thing.  If I hadn't had the good luck to
> consult briefly with the firm that invented PANOSE specifications
> (I actually have the technical manual) I would be utterly
> baffled by them.  They are actually a bit sinister.  If you
> don't
> have the font specified in the document, a PANOSE-aware application
> will blithely use the string of numeric parameters to hunt for
> the "nearest equivalent" and substitute it into the 
> output
> WITHOUT TELLING YOU IT HAS DONE SO.  

It is hard to have a lower opinion of any specification method
than I do of PANOSE :-)

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