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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
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Date: 14 Aug 90 14:20:56 GMT
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An unnamed source [:-)] at Apple writes:

>the curve equations will be downloaded to the printer along 
>with machine code to do the rendering.  So the printer will still do the 
>rendering, but will do it as fast as its processor can.

Uck.  Uck!  UCK!  UUUUUCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!  More d**n controller-dependent junk.
I guess my NeXT printer won't be rendering "TrueType" fonts.  Nor will any
other PostScript printer that uses a different controller (such as the
ones that use RISC chips).

Adobe ought to be pleased with this decision; their PostScript driver is
looking better and better.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner