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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: some general Mac questions
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Date: 6 Jul 89 20:27:12 GMT
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>In article <4830@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd) writes:
>> WHATS THE DEAL WITH THE GENEVA FONT?  IF ITS THE MAC
>> DEFAULT, SHOULDN'T THE LASER PRINTERS SUPPORT IT?

In article <8089@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>No, the LaserWriters do not support Geneva because it exists in bit map
>form only.

Sorry, Michael, you didn't answer Todd's question.  He asked whether the
laser printers SHOULD support the default fonts.  The correct answer is,
yes, of course they should; or at least Apple should release PostScript
versions of them.  Failure to do so creates problems for users (like Todd).

As you pointed out, however, they don't.

>I think that the sound support now is outstanding.

You mean that the grotty CLICK! <sound plays> CLICK! is outstanding?  Or that
the annoying background tick-tick-tick when nothing is playing is outstanding?
You need to be more clear.

"... the first personal computer worth criticizing." - Alan Kay

	Howard A. Landman
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