Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!peter
From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000's Shipping!
Keywords: How does Dave Haynie have time to build his Amigas??
Message-ID: <12998@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 18:38:04 GMT
References: <1472@sdrc.UUCP> <12961@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Jun26.224211.16335@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax (Peter Cherna)
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In article <1990Jun26.224211.16335@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>	To any Commodorians, in particular Guru Haynie:
>
>	Although Compugraphic has admitted to licensing
>Intellifont technology to Commodore, I realize that it is
>unreleased and thus you can't say anything about it (lest you
>have your #$%*$%& chopped off 8)
>	However, can you say what if any changes to fonts have
>been made to the current A3000 version of 2.0, and if any other
>changes will be made for the final 2.0 to be seen this Fall.

There have been some changes to fonts under 2.0.  To start, there is
a brand new clean sans-serif Topaz font.

More importantly, 2.0 has bitmap scaling fonts.  Not to be confused with
outline fonts.  If you explicitly ask for Topaz 22, for example, you
will get a scaled copy of Topaz 11.  The various AvailFonts() calls
will give you only the designed sizes that exist, as before.  Of course,
the scaling is done with bitmap scaling calls (which are now available
to any application), so the results will depend on several factors,
including the size of the font compared to the size of the result
(even multiples look best, smaller multiples often look better than
larger ones), and the font itself.  For whatever reason, for example,
Courier scales better than Times.

>Thanks,
>	-- Ethan
>
>Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
>
>"If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'"
>		-- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else

     Peter
--
     Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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