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@Article{Karow:EPODD-4-3-151,
  author =       "Peter Karow",
  title =        "Digital punch cutting",
  journal =      j-EPODD,
  volume =       "4",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "151--170",
  month =        sep,
  year =         "1991",
  CODEN =        "EPODEU",
  ISSN =         "0894-3982",
  bibsource =    "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/epodd.bib",
  abstract =     "Digital punch cutting is today's font technology.
                 There are three different methods available for getting
                 alphabets into digital form: hand-digitizing,
                 auto-tracing and direct design on a workstation screen.
                 The advent of intelligent font scaling requires us to
                 ensure the `optical' quality of a font and also the
                 `numerical' quality of its data; this, in turn, means
                 that new procedures have to be added to the font
                 production process. Furthermore, a given typeface has
                 to be rendered on a wide variety of output devices
                 ranging from computer displays, printers (dot-matrix,
                 laser, inkjet or thermal-transfer) and typesetters (CRT
                 or laser) to the more exotic devices such as plotters,
                 vinyl-cutters and routers. To deal with this it is
                 necessary to set up a database of font data, in a
                 machine-independent format such as IKARUS\@. This
                 enables us to cope with the long life cycles of
                 typefaces and also to serve present and future
                 applications by converting the IKARUS data into various
                 machine-specific formats.",
  keywords =     "Digital typefaces, Hand-digitizing, IKARUS format,
                 Auto-tracing, Font technology, Intelligent font
                 scaling",
}

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