outline font
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outline font
[′au̇t‚līn ‚fänt] (graphic arts)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
outline font
(text)(Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines
and curves as opposed to a bitmap font. An outline font
(e.g. PostScript, TrueType, RISC OS) can be scaled to any
size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font,
and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot
of numerical processing. The result of transforming a
character in an outline font in a particular way is often
saved as a bitmap in a font cache to avoid repeating the
calculations if that character is to be drawn again.
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outline font
A type of font made from basic outlines of each character. The outlines are scaled into actual characters (bitmaps) before printing. See scalable font.Copyright © 1981-2019 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.