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Gary I hadn't realised that Adobe felt so badly about C=. I suspect that that is Commodore's own fault (again!) … they really do not know how to present themselves properly, and until they do, will be destined forever to be perceived by the non-Commodore users as a games-machine manufacturer. Yes, I understand the Type-1 hinting/Flex system … and, as you say, the mechanism is integral to the interpreter, although you have to set up the parameters yourself and, with Flex, need to set up subroutines etc. My comment on CG hinting comes from some stuff in the Hewlett-Packard PCL/HPGL reference … it talks about the FAIS document, which describes how to format a typeface for processing using the AGFA CG Intellifont Scaling Technology, which describes un-hinted outlines. It says: `un-hinted outlines do not produce as high quality output as those which are hinted or contain Intellifont scaling intelligence. Hinted Intellifont scalable outlines are automatically adjusted during scaling to produce the highest quality output.' I took from this that hinting was integral to the Intellifont engine. Mike (Whapping from the UK)