Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pmafire!uudell!sequoia!execu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: DTP Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 90 06:42:52 GMT Lines: 27 [jvt@its.bt.co.uk writes ... ] > Personally, I like Timeworks as a cheap, #75 (~$150) but powerful package. > I can only compare it with Calamus and quite frankly for the price, Timeworks > knocks spots off it! Timeworks is GDOS based and hence can use just about > any font available in that format. Its advantage is with the bit-mapped > fonts as these translate to dot-matrix printers or lasers quite well. > Calamus uses outline fonts which when displayed even on a Lasejet II look > blocky and ragged!! This runs absolutely counter to every experience I have had with Calamus, GDOS and font technology in general -- and I've been working with typesetters for 20 years. 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. ---- Steve Yelvington / P. O. Box 38 / Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047 USA INTERNET: steve@thelake.mn.org UUCP: plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve