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Variable glyph output from a font

Variable glyph output from a font  
Kephnos_newsgroup at yahoo.com
From:Kephnos_newsgroup at yahoo.com
Subject:Variable glyph output from a font
Date:23 Jan 2005 19:59:44 -0800
Situation: I want as realistic a handwriting/typewriter font as
possible.

Problem(s): These 'printing devices' don't make every character look
exactly the same every time, and they also make impressions in the
paper.

My Thoughts: There isn't much I can do about the key impressions in the
paper, unless there is some sort of high-resolution dot matrix printer
in existence that I am unaware of, so I'm not worrying about that.
However, the problem of the result of glyph inconsistency can be solved
with software. I figure if you get a few hundred impressions of each
character, you'd have a much more realistic impression than what there
is now. For the sake of the size of the font file itself, you could
design some sort of algorithm that makes alterations for each character
you type. I haven't heard of any kind of font that works that way...
has anyone else?
   

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