[gs-devel] fonts --> dot matrix printer |

[Ray Johnston]

Dan,

The best looking fonts on displays or low res printers are hand tuned
"raster" fonts.

The X11 distribution includes some typefaces at certain sizes.

Other than that, stick with san-serif fonts.

Maybe someone else has other ideas.

Regards,
Ray Johnston
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Daniel MacKay wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> I need help with picking faces that will look beautiful and crisp on  a 
> 120dpi dot-matrix printer (the one that I wrote the driver for in  the 
> last few weeks.)  The ones I've tried have been kind of ..  lumpy.  The 
> strokes on the letters are not even; they're thick in  some places and 
> thin in others.  Graphics (the eps tiger for  instance) print out 
> perfectly.
> 
> If anyone can give me a place to start out learning about using fonts  
> in a low-res environment, I'd be most obliged. Thanks.
> 
> -dan