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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's")
Message-ID: <17224@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 90 10:27:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink) writes:

> For starters, the GS/OS does not support Adobe Laserfonts (nor will it ever 
> according to apple) and that makes it hellish to do any serious DTP with a 
> variety of standard fonts.  The lack of decenty color capabilities in 640x400 
> mode hampers any hopes of serious color processing.  The lack of square pixels 
> makes any precision work like DTP or WP a chore.

Hunnh? If the GS's pixels aren't square, then what the hell are they?
GS/OS supports some kind of fonts that will print quite nicely on a PostScript
printer, that's certain. Although I think Adobe's a major bitch for not making
an Imagewriter driver of their own for the GS that could print akin to ATM...


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