Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!oahu.cs.ucla.edu!stephen From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: DTP Summary: New GDOS quality Message-ID: <1990Nov21.072839.4535@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 21 Nov 90 07:28:39 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: oahu.cs.ucla.edu In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: > >Outline fonts are used to create bitmaps on the fly at optimum resolutions, >for each desired point size. PostScript, Calamus, DeskSet II and PageStream's >built-in printer drivers are all examples of outline font technology. >There is considerable variation in the quality, but all are better than >GDOS. > >I'm looking forward to seeing the new outline-font GDOS shown at Comdex >last week. The Z*Net report suggests that it uses a PostScript-clone >to generate bitmaps from outline masters. > I've seen output form the new GDOS, which is called FSM GDOS for Font Scaling Module Graphic Device Operating System. The stuff looks REALLY good. It uses the Ultrascript fonts, and it even substitutes fonts for real italics. Uses the same outlines for all devices so what you see will truly be what you get. Finally, it's very compatible with older GDOS programs and it can rotate text to any angle (0-360 degrees in 1/10 degree incrents). --Steve >---- > Steve Yelvington / P. O. Box 38 / Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047 USA > INTERNET: steve@thelake.mn.org UUCP: plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve -- Steve Whitney "It's never _really_ the last minute" (())_-_(()) UCLA Comp. Sci. Grad. Student | (* *) | Internet: stephen@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Bruin--> { \_@_/ } GEnie: S.WHITNEY (To Cal: We still have the axe!) `-----'