On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:47, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The reason vector fonts are better is that they scale well. > Bit-mapped fonts are just a bunch of pixels on a grid that are > on or off and these make the shape of a character. They work > well at the resolution and size they were designed for, and > very poorly at all other settings. > > Vector fonts instead describe how to draw the character and > other useful info like how much space to leave between other > characters before and after it. Thus they can be drawn to > almost any size, and still be nicely rounded off on the curves > to give a pleasing look.
Thanks Alan. That's why I love this mailing list! :-) -- Regards, Mick
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