Re: the FontType option
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- Subject: [mg78841] Re: the FontType option
- From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:04:31 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 10, 4:48 am, Selwyn Hollis <sh2.7... at earthlink.net> wrote: > I recently discovered a bug in QuickTime export that showed itself as > a missing horizontal line of pixels across the center of anything > exported to QuickTime. After Tech Support told me they couldn't > reproduce the problem, I dug around until I finally discovered that > the problem occurs only when PrivateFontOptions "FontType" is set to > "Outline" rather then "Bitmap." (Tech support seemed to think that > having the FontType option set oddly to "Outline" was what was wrong, > as opposed to there actually being a bug.) This sounds like a bug. > Anyway, I have habitually set FontType->"Outline" for as long as I > can remember. In the "old days" it was necessary in order that Adobe > Type Manager would scale Type 1 fonts. Since OS X and prior to > Mathematica 6, it was necessary in order to have font smoothing via a > "haxie" called Silk (www.unsanity.com). Now with 6, in most cases > type looks more-or-less the same either way, but for some reason it > has an effect on line height. This setting is (almost, apparently) completely ignored in Mathematica 6 on Mac OS X. There should no longer be any reason to set it. Rob Raguet-Schofield Mac Developer Wolfram Research