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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PostScript/TrueType Question
Message-ID: <2868@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 90 00:07:58 GMT
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In article <70500038@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>  (1) Many applications (such as Canvas) try to kluge rotation and
>	screw it up;
>  (2) There is no standard representation of rotated text, hence,
>	rotated text cannot be stored on the clipboard.
>  (3) Rotated text is important for labeling edges in graph-theory
>	graphs, and axes (90 degrees) in data graphs.
>In my opinion, this is the biggest failing in system 7.0; it's a good
>reason to go out an put down $3340 on a new 15MIPS NeXT machine!  8-)
>Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
	
	Then why don't you run out and get your Next box and spare
	the world your perpetual flaming of the Mac and how "you"
	think it should be done. 




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