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.
(1995-03-16)
Nearby terms:
Ousterhout's fallacy « Ousterhout's false dichotomy
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