(Yes, a late reply) On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 08:40 AM, David Honig wrote:
At 11:47 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Petro wrote:
That would be utterly pointless (no pun intended). The value of Postscript is that it *isn't* a set of pixels.
No, it wouldn't be pointless. Postscript is not the only way to print.
What I was responding to was talking about shipping fonts as bitmaps. Bitmaps are not functions, they are not line descriptions. You know this.
It is the equivalent of using a function that approximates the sine() function to generate a table of trig values. The function's code is copyrighted, but the table of values isn't. And yes, there are still uses for tables of trig values.
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