[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Al Hartman]

Fonts are generally not stored as bit map renderings, except at very low 
resolutions. Fonts, like TT fonts, PS Fonts, or FancyFonts are described 
using vectors and Bezier curve equations. The character is then rendered by 
the printing computer and filled in. This is not theoretical, this is how I 
did exactly what I'm talking about on a CoCo on an old Z-80 2mhz, or a 
4.77mhz 8086 PC in the early 1980's. Both were floppy based.

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Heskett

On Friday 10 January 2014 17:17:55 Al Hartman did opine:

> In reply to Gene's last post...
>
> You over estimate the size of the files you would need for fonts, and
> the amount of time to print.
>
And you are ignoring the space requirements for a font rendered at at least
600 dpi, compared to the 7x9 fonts a 9 pin dmp used.  That resolution, in
terms of storage required, comes at a pretty high price.