Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!ginosko!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wiley!david From: david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager Keywords: grayscale fonts Message-ID: <5906@wiley.UUCP> Date: 27 Oct 89 02:06:38 GMT References: <266@axecore.UUCP> <1834@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Reply-To: david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 16 I just got ATM and it only took me about 5 minutes to figure out that it doesn't do what I want most: produce good looking type for screen preview at small sizes (11 point, for example). In fact, ATM-generated type at 11 points doesn't look appreciably better than that produced by QuickDraw scaling. (Large sizes look great, though). My question is, would it be possible for ATM to produce grey-scale fonts? I think that QuickDraw has to convert 1 bit fonts to the depth of the screen anyway, before it can blit them onto the screen. Doesn't the Mac II ROM contain multi-bit versions of Chicago, just so that conversion doesn't have to be done? Here's hoping for version 1.1. -David Hull