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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Stephen Whitney)
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Subject: Re: GDOS, PP and outline fonts
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Date: 22 Oct 89 08:03:20 GMT
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In article <89Oct20.230647edt.57387@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
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>Besides, what's all this about?  Apple is still developing its outline
>font system.  Certainly, a Mac can output to a Postscript device which
>uses outline fonts, but so can an ST or IBM.  Right now, Macs use
>raster fonts just like GDOS, except the output resolution is not as
>good on the imagewriter (I imagine).  The only system I know of with
>outline fonts is the NeXT, and the __only__ full DTP package with
>outline screen fonts is still Calamus (Mac users, turn green with
>envy!!!!!).
>           David Megginson, Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto

The big advantage that the Mac has over the ST that could be corrected by
outline screen and printer fonts is that the Mac can load and unload fonts
as needed because of its automatically ejecting floppies  (Insert System
Disk).  The ST loads all of its fonts when a program asks for them, but if you
need to check fonts sizes on the printer fonts, you have to load evey one of
them into memory.  In addition, the Mac uses the same bitmapped fonts
(albeit in different sizes) to do printer output so you don't have two
different 12 point fonts stored in memory.

Imagine how mnay Imagine how many fonts you could load if you just needed one
outline for each typeface!  Even with a large cache, we'd win.

If anyone knows what the Mac does in better detail, feel free to correct me.
Steve Whitney   "It's never _really_ the last minute"       (())_-_(())
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