Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Royal vs Adobe
Message-ID: <5366@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 04:43:40 GMT
References: <27618215MES@MSU) <18000049@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5363@mnetor.UUCP> <11255@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
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In article <11255@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg) writes:
>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.

Hmmm. I thought *all* fonts (Adobe included) would be managed by just dropping
them into the system folder (but I don't really know). However, I don't think
it's fair to lay the blame for font IDs and names at Adobe's door. The
scheme was invented by Appl, after all, and I believe the cryptic naming
conventions are a result of narrow menus, lack of inter-manufacturer
standards, etc. In any case, let's hope everbody's smarter now and will
adhere to a consistent design. (btw, ATM has nothing to do with this
particular hassle; it's just an add-on to overcome the weaknesses of
QuickDraw. Further such appendages from Adobe will clean up the menus
and also allow eidtable paths to be extracted from typefaces. neat.)

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
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