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LUC DEVROYE

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Sandro Mazzucato

Some PostScript handwriting fonts developed by Luc Devroye and Sandro Mazzucato at McGill University. Font files include pfa, pfb, afm, and tfm and are designed for easy use with TeX and on UNIX platforms. Plus the old typewriter fonts Gete and OV29. Random search in automatic font generation (1996) is an article by Luc Devroye and Sandro Mazzucato that describes the entire process.

The abstract of the paper: We present a method for creating a PostScript type one Bezier outline font from a scanned bitmap of all characters. The number and positions of the Bezier sections are found by a random search method in which the search parameters are learned on-line. The criterion we use in the minimization takes into account the curvature, an error for deviating from the original pixel bitmap, and a penalty for the number of Bezier sections. The output consists of a type one PostScript font file and corresponding afm and tfm files with full sets of kerning pairs. The process is virtually fully automatic.

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