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Outlines are becoming the standard way of storing character fonts. In the late seventies and early eighties, only fonts for photocomposers were stored by their outline description. Screen fonts and printer fonts were generally stored in bitmap form. The advent of resolution independent page description languages (Adobe 1985) and of outline grid fitting algorithms (Hersch 1987) provided the means to print a given document page with the same appearance on middle-resolution laser printers and on high-resolution photocomposers. This concept has recently been extended to display devices thanks to interactive resolution-independent window interfaces like NeWS (Gosling 1989) or DisplayPostScript (Holzgang 1990).
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Hersch, R.D. (1994). Font Rasterization: The State of the Art. In: Coquillart, S., Straßer, W., Stucki, P. (eds) From Object Modelling to Advanced Visual Communication. Focus on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78291-6_9
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