Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:1940 comp.sys.mac.programmer:16425 comp.sys.mac.system:974
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner
From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: QuickDraw problem with drawing certain fonts
Message-ID: <1990Aug3.150054.6551@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 90 15:00:54 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.154901.14781@ra.src.umd.edu> <1990Aug1.200516.16644@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1990Aug2.163757.19572@ra.src.umd.edu> <1990Aug3.010400.28725@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <9567@goofy.Apple.COM>
Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lines: 28

In article <9567@goofy.Apple.COM> heksterb@apple.com (Ben Hekster) writes:
>HOW can ANYONE call an ascent-38, descent-147 font a 50-point font!?  The 
>very FIRST page of the Font Manager chapter in Inside Macintosh [IM I-217] 
>clearly states that [deleted]

Fonts and points predate Inside Macintosh by several hundred years, a
fact you seem to have overlooked.  Not being a "type weenie", I can't
say for sure, but I could imagine that the point size of a font full of
weird and wonderful glyphs might relate more to what size of "normal" font
should be used with it than its observed leading.  That is, if this
weird font looks best with 50pt Times, then it is reasonable to call the
font 50pt, no matter what "size" it is by other measures.

>Excuse me, but how can anyone in the business of making fonts not read 
>the most basic information on them, exceed the specifications and then 
>start complaining

It is PRECISELY someone in the business of making fonts who is
likely to ignore Apple's provincial definitions of the same.
Whether that is the fault of the fontmaker (for ignoring restrictions
they should have obeyed) or Apple (for making the restrictions in
the first place) is debatable.

And complaining is certainly in order, if the problem is keeping real
users from doing useful work, as it seems to be.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner