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+From: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk
+To: grunwald <grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu>
+Cc: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk
+Subject: A bit of history for you!
+Date: Sat Jun 2 23:05:54 GMT 1990
+
+I don't know who ftp'd the cmr/ps files for you, but give them my thanks!
+- I'm the person who generated them. I put them in the uk Aston tex archive
+and announced them on uktex & texhax, hoping that someone in the states
+would copy them to the clarkson? labrea? archive. I was just starting to
+think no-one was using them :)
+
+Anyway, I'm writing because I'm fairly sure the readme file I wrote never
+made it into the archive, so here's the info that should have gone with it.
+
+The program to convert the fonts from bitmaps to outlines was written by
+Neil Raine at Acorn Computers in the UK. I hacked the TeX end of it;
+reading gf files etc, and generating 3000dpi versions of the fonts to get
+better rendition.
+
+The fonts are *experimental* - feel free to try them out to see what sort
+of quality you can get. Our results were that on low-res lasers (300dpi etc)
+the cut of the font was rather heavy - they look like the typical adobe
+fonts - not thin & light like the cmr we know & love. On high-res devices
+(anything from 1200 up to 2000dpi) They look just like pixel-versions of
+cmr. Unfortunately many of the PS phototypesetters give up the ghost at
+trying to cache as many outline fonts as an average document needs, whereas
+they worked alright with bitmapped fonts.
+
+There is a tiny bug in the bitmap to outline conversion which you should
+watch for; occasion characters (maybe 1 in 500 or more) have a spurious
+little horizontal line sticking out of them. Since the font generation
+took a weekend of 50 high-powered risc machines to run, I'm reluctant to
+redo all these when the bug is fixed, so if anyone can report the font
+and char position of any of these bugs, I'd be most greatful.
+
+(Oh - I forgot to explain in the previous para; the reason that the 300dpi
+fonts are heavy is, i think, because postscript renders a single extra
+level of pixels round outlines. At 300dpi this is noticable; at 2000 not)
+
+I hope you enjoy these fonts. If anyone is reading this and is thinking
+'oh no, not again - don't they know that PS fonts don't scale properly',
+you'll find when you avtually look at them that I've included all the
+different design sizes (9, 10, 12pt etc.) - the outlines are only to be
+magnified to get the effect of TeX's magsteps, not its point sizes.
+
+Share & Enjoy,
+
+Graham Toal <gtoal%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
+