Infinifont: a parametric font generation system
Clyde D. McQueen, Raymond G. Beausoleil · 1993
INTRODUCTION Digital fonts have become ubiquitous in the age of the personal computer. While these fonts have significantly increased the range of typographic expression available to digital documents, they have created a new class of problems. In particular, a document created on one computer system, using digital fonts available on that system, may not display with high fidelity on a second system (even if the computer models and/or operating systems are identical) if the same font files are not available on both systems. While it is possible for the second operating system to map a font request by the viewing application into a request for another font, this replacement font will not in general be a replica of the font used to create the document on the original computer system. In addition, font files require so much storage space that large font libraries are not practical for the vast majority of individuals and organizations. These large font file sizes compound the do