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From: laba-1aj@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GDOS with outline fonts?
Keywords: GDOS flexible fonts vaporware
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Date: 19 Oct 89 01:20:11 GMT
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In article <464d79db.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
>
>This brings up one of my pet peeves about Atari, the lousy fonts and GDOS.
>And the fact that the VaporWare TT will use the existing GDOS with all of
>its warts!! In fact, I haven't even heard that the TT will include GDOS 
>in the ROMS, which is probably for the best as it allows the user to replace
>GDOS with the much better GPLUS from Codehead Software.
>
The whole GDOS font concept is now dead in the water (actually, it was dead
earlier this decade, with those TeX metafonts.)  Even the new font things
on the Apple, nice as it sounds, has some flaws.  The fonts you ask for
are pulled off the disk, and if they are not there, they are built and saved
to disk.  Obviously, this can result in some severe slowdowns.  A better
way would be to make the letters and cache them "on the fly."  But I'm 
getting off the topic.

>One of the nicest features of the Steve Jobs' NeXT computer is the fact that
>it uses Display PostScript to give you BOTH screen and printer Postscript fonts.
>Now that would be a good reason to buy the TT, if it came with Display PS.
>But, don't hold your breath!!

don't worry, I won't.  Though I don't understand why imagen doesn't bundle
a ultrascript previewer with US.

>
>So, in the meantime, save your peenies and buy a real computer like the
>NeXT if you want professional graphics!!
>
>Rich Covert


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