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Re: Comments on Microsoft ClearType technology



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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Berthold K.P. Horn mailto:bkph@ai.mit.edu http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/bkph (NC)