On 3/30/2017 1:58 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
I believe the original idea of scalable Type 3 was that the font code itself would do the scaling to different sizes; that's why the font only had to be included once. Like a Type 1. But since the demise of PGC et al., that was no longer operative.
It might even refer to the thesis-related feature of automatic generated expanded versions (when doing hz expansion) which was afaik removed later for bitmaps.
To sum up, I think the current behavior is good, and I should change the manual to get rid of PGC stuff, get rid of the phrase "scalable Type 3", and explain the current behavior.
Yes, unless in some appendix you want to preserve history ... but anyway it really makes no sense to keep prc around (btw, I rmember lots of disucssions also with people from adobe about these type 3 quality issues, because at that time type 3 rendering was not that good. It were the years that we started with different method for outputting rules depending on size thresholds and what acrobat liked most). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------