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From: cory@three.MV.COM (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Message-ID: <406@three.MV.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 00:21:25 GMT
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Organization: The Enigami Co. Nashua, NH.
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chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:

>If they use PostScript fonts, the PostScript engine will render them; if 
>they use TrueType fonts, the new driver will download the TrueType 
>rendering code and that will be used.  Either way, it still works.

Does this mean that the fonts will be down loaded as the curve equations,
and a postscript program will be sent along to convert the equations into
bitmaps?  Or are the bitmaps going to be generated on the Mac and then
downloaded to the printer/typesetter (expensive, especially on something
like a 1200 dpi device)?

+C

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