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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Old fonts and System 7.0
Message-ID: <1990May31.062247.14017@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 31 May 90 06:22:47 GMT
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by macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg):
| Question about the new font structure with System 7.0:
| 
| ......................................... Anyway, my question is whether there
| will be a conversion utility to change the old fonts to new ones, or will
| system 7.0 improve on it's ability to handle the old fonts, or is everything
| going to have to be reinvented (as far as fonts are concerned).
| - Chris

  I haven't written a beast to "convert" TrueType fonts to "old" fonts,
but I have to presume that would be a pretty darn easy task. I'll bet
something like SuitCaseIII will do this! Better yet would be an ATM like
hack for the machines that will undoubtably be running 6.x even after
Sys 7's release due to various reasons (bugs, memory, laziness) that can
go out on a network and get a bitmap from a font server (perhaps an
AppleShare server?) I think it is also very possible that Apple will put
TrueType in a 6.x release, especially if 7 is delayed further.

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