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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Font Pricing
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.130617.11792@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 90 13:06:17 GMT
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In article <1990Sep10.043539.26@d.cs.okstate.edu> norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) writes:
>From article <1990Sep08.111132.10740@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, by hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen):
>> [...] The key question will be "how
>> good are the TrueType fonts compared to their Type 1 equivalents?"
Yes indeed

>  - a hinting mechanism that allows character shapes to vary at different
>    sizes (Yea, no more titling capitals. BTW, for those who don't know,
>    many type designers intensionally vary the shapes of characters as 
>    they grow in size. 
Yes indeed very much! 


>  - specification of info that will allow the line layout manager to 
>    provide automatic ligaturing, etc. (actually, applications could
>    use this info before the LLM becomes available, but I expect most
>    people will wait.)
Yes indeed.



>
>The way I look at it, one TrueType typeface can contain the equivalent
>of Adobe Garamond, Adobe Garamond Expert, Adobe Garamond Alternate, and
>Adobe Garamond Titling Capitals. And when the LLM comes out, I get extra
>functionality that will probably be missing from Type 1 faces.
>
>Yes, a 'superhinted' TrueType font will take a lot of work--but I expect
>it to be well worth it.
>
We shall simply have to see how well the results come out. It won't
be hard to beat Postscript, which is only fair on 1200 d.p.i. 
typesetters and downright ludicrous on 300 d.p.i. printers.

Doug McDonald