page_title: Peter Karow
section_title: Digitization of outlines for typefaces (1972) with Ikarus
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Karow / Contributions / Digitization of outlines for typefaces (1972) with Ikarus
caption_attribution_description: English: Digitizer 1972
context_page_description: Peter Karow is a German entrepreneur, inventor and software developer. He holds several patents in the field of desktop publishing and is known for his work on computer fonts. He contributed with several books and patents to the development of operating systems for computers. He is recognized as the inventor of outline computer fonts.
context_section_description: Printouts of single characters in a height of approximately 10 cm were digitized on a digitizer tablet of Aristo along their outlines, marking various points of support (beginning, corner, tangent and curve) with an accuracy of 1/100 mm. This invention together with a newly developed structure for storing and encoding single characters inside a font made characters, but also any other graphical signs freely scalable for the computer and available for other mathematical operations.
caption: Digitizer 1972
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