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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Royal vs Adobe
Message-ID: <11255@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 19:28:22 GMT
References: <27618215MES@MSU) <18000049@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5363@mnetor.UUCP>
Reply-To: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <5363@mnetor.UUCP> frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes:
>How will they be "easier to use"?  I've read all of the
>quoted articles, and while it doesn't seem clear to me which
>technology (or should I say strategy) is better, it does seem apparent
>that Apple's primary motivation is money, not altruism.

Royal will be much easier to use. It will be merely dropping the fonts in the
system folder and go. There wont be this hassel that ATM currently has of
installing bit map fonts, choosing BI Helvetica Italic font, or whatever and
running atm as an init... Oh, i guess some of the problems with atm are fixed
by an adobe program, but yet there is another investment.
 
I'm not dropping Postscript either. It still is the top system. But Royal
seems to make more sense... more sense for Apple, and for the users.
 



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