Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
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From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: Adobe Courier versions
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.173553.23146@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc.
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 17:35:53 GMT
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henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes:
>kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>    *  No, I meant Courier.  
>
>    *  I recall that back when I used LaserWriters they made
>    *  serifs with rounded tips (like real typewriters with
>    *  cloth ribbons).  But the version with ATM makes
>    *  squared-off slab serifs which make the font look very different.
>
>I grabbed a couple of the outline descriptions from the
>Courier font out of my LaserWriter II-NTX and they are all
>straight lines.  [...] The serifs are square.

Yes, the serifs are square, but the default linecap is a circular arc, so
the ends of the serifs are drawn as parts of circles both on the LaserWriter
and under Open Windows 2.0.
The LinoType Collection catalogue shows the slab serifs in Courier as having
rounded ends (I'm looking at 00564 Courier Typewriter).

If you do a 0 setlinecap in the font's Buildchar you'll get square ends.

Lee

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