Formally, I am having difficulty finding documentation to support how I thought true type fonts should scale. The article http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/TTCH01.htm is probably the best article that I could find. Notably, the sections on scaling a glyph and grid fitting a glyph outline.
That being said, in trialing how different true fonts physically print, and also appear on screen, I found that they support my ideas. The width and height both scale proportionally. Unfortunately, all I have at my disposal are Microsoft office programs, and their corresponding printer output. Normally I would expect some distortion at different font sizes. However, the way that imagemagick renders some lines of text can be dramatically different depending on the font size Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glenn Linderman Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:41 PM To: Scott Nebor; [email protected] Subject: Re: [magick-users] Font widths On approximately 9/6/2006 3:49 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Scott Nebor: > Has anyone ever noticed how fonts scale differently for different font > sizes? > snip > My understanding of true type fonts is that they > should always appear and line up the same no matter which font size is used. > Really? Do you have a reference for that understanding? I never heard that before, and I never expected it either, for proportional fonts. > Is this perhaps a deficiency of imagemagick? > I'd think it is a hard problem, for imagemagick or anything else, unless fractional-pixel positioning were done. -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
