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Long before there were hi-res laser printers in every design firm and PDF specimens on every foundry website, typographers discovered, compared, and selected type using specimen books. There is too much separation from the display to the printed page for a designer to see how the curves, the straights, and the joins truly interact. The [...]

Only few people know, that TEFF is actually designing a lot of high quality typography. Most of the typography we do are dictionaries, bibles and similar. In the recent past TEFF has had several book design awards. I work as a typeface designer for TEFF. Most of what I do is to support my colleagues, who design the books. This can be the creation, modification, or alteration of typefaces, which are needed for the typographical designs. And I work for foundry projects as well. ---Jacques

If you use Photoshop for example to render, then you're right. But if you use a real screen-Postscript renderer, then the bitmap will be identical. I'm not saying it's worth the trouble though. Hey, what do you do at TEFF? hhp

Indeed, a rendered image image should be the same. But this is not always the case. The results depend on which driver or programm you use. My colleague (I work for TEFF) added the remark, because the sample pages are good enough to give you an impression of how the typefaces look like, but they will never be 100 % indentical to the results you get by using the original fonts. ---Jacques

I was under the impression that 600 dpi was 600 dpi, and a bitmap image rendered succesfully for the size/resolution from vector information would look the same.

And why not? If they used a good screen-Postscript rendered the results should be identical. hhp

These PDF files contain 600 dpi bitmap images and... They just accentuaded the fact, that a Bitmap image at 600 DPI will not give you the same results as a print using Postscript at 600 DPI. ---Jacques