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Re: Circles
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: Circles |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:26:07 +0000 (UTC) |
>> Well, Metafont uses a third-order Bézier approximation to build up
>> circles (from four quarter circles). However, the Metafont book
>> says that the difference to a real circle is less than 0.06%, which
>> is thus imperceptible.
>>
>> The same holds for PostScript-based fonts.
>
> PostScript uses second-order Béziers, so it makes little sense to
> cite the mathematics of Metafont here.
This is not correct. PostScript-derived fonts (Type1, CFF/CFF2 in
OpenType) *do* use third-order curves. I think you are mixing this up
with TrueType fonts, which indeed use second-order curves.
Werner
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