vector font

Metafont is a description language used to define vector fonts.

Like TrueType, it is a vector font description system.

For that reason, Microsoft and Apple joined to develop vector font and printing technology of their own.

Roman (vector font included with Windows 3.1)

It was one of the first DTP applications supporting an own vector font format.

Unlike bitmapped fonts, vector fonts could be made larger or smaller and still look good.

The library loaded graphic drivers () and vector fonts () from disk in order to provide device independent graphics support.

Digital bitmap fonts (and the final rendering of vector fonts) may use monochrome or shades of gray.

Outline fonts (also known as Vector fonts) use drawing instructions or mathematical formulæ to describe each glyph.

All those little characters need to be rasterized from their vector font definitions, then sub-pixel antialiased and blended onto the background.

Later versions of GDOS supported vector fonts.

Early vector fonts were used by vector monitors and vector plotters using their own internal fonts, usually with thin single strokes instead of thick outlined glyphs.

Text handling is much like it is in a second generation display layer (which already handles vector fonts), but with additional transformation abilities such writing text on arbitrary curves.

Outline fonts or vector fonts are collections of vector images, i.e. a set of lines and curves to define the border of glyphs.

Outline fonts (also called vector fonts) use Bézier curves, drawing instructions and mathematical formulae to describe each glyph, which make the character outlines scalable to any size.

The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed circa 1967 by Dr. A. V. Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory.

It was the first fully graphical BBS system with iconic navigation, punchy bitmaps, and vector fonts, all at a time when ultra-fast high-speed modems were barely clocking 2400 bit/s.

Digital fonts store the image of each character either as a bitmap in a bitmap font, or by mathematical description of lines and curves in an outline font, also called a vector font.

Although popular (easier to use than TeX for many scientists), this unfortunately led to its demise as more text editors with vector fonts for MS Windows began to appear, and in 1996, it has been discontinued.

Seed7 has over 70 libraries, which cover areas like containers, numeric functions, lexical analysis, file manipulation, networking, graphics, pixmap and vector fonts, CGI support, character encoding, time and date handling and more.

The fonts are publicly available and have few restrictions Vector fonts are easily scaled and rotated in two or three dimensions; consequently the Hershey fonts have been widely used in computer graphics and computer-aided design programs.

A few more specialized font converters followed: FONmaker, for converting vector fonts into bitmaps; FontFlasher, for converting vector fonts into pixelated fonts for lo-res display; and FogLamp, for converting native Fontographer files into modern formats.