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From: psycho@kiwi.ucsb.edu (Scot Kellan Forbes)
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Subject: Re: Soft fonts for 3.0
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Date: 2 Dec 90 21:36:06 GMT
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In article <90333.110024MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET> MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) writes:
>In article <1990Nov28.150653.6984@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
>(Terry Jones) says:
>>Spend a few clams (like $65 US) and get Adobe Type Manager and you will
>>have a great selection of fonts in more sizes than you asked for. Also your
>>screen will look proper in applications, line breaks will match properly and
>>enlarged screen views (200% for example in PageMaker) will look proper
>>too.

I have literature for SuperPrint by Zenographics, and if it does
everything it claims, it may be quite an attractive option:

Basically, there are three programs in this package, SuperPrint for
on-the-fly scalable fonts to you printer (may only support laser
printers however, I don't have the broshure with me now to check),
SuperQueue, a drop-in replacement print manager for Windows that
claims more speed and better looking graphics (claims faster storage
of temporary "metafile" to return you to your application faster), and
finally SuperText, which lets you add and remove fonts and font
foundries, and also manages scalable screen fonts.  It supports
Bitstream, Adobe Type 1, Agfa Compugraphic, and Numbus Q outlines
(Nimbus Q are the 22 typefaces that are included with the package, and
I believe Courier is one of them), as well as HP soft fonts.  It
implies that you can mix and match fonts from all of these.  I can't
remember the other features offhand, and I haven't actually seen it in
action, but it sounds impressive enough.  Although it lists for twice
as much as both Facelift and ATM ($195 compared to $99), it would be
worth it if it does what it does as well as Facelift and ATM do, and
does it faster.  However, you can get Facelift or ATM for under $60
mail order, and I haven't seen SuperPrint available anywhere yet
except from Zenographics.

Has anyone actually seen this product in action?  The speed
comparisons it gave were impressive enough, but I'm not sure the
comparison products were equally matched for speed in all other
aspects (it compared itself on a LaserJet to a Postscript printer, for
one).

Hope this helps someone, I'm having trouble deciding myself.  Maybe
I'll just wait for Windows 3.1 and True Type :)

Scot Forbes