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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: Does Commodore really want to sell WB2.0? I Dont Think So.
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Date: 12 Jan 91 03:04:28 GMT
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In article <15549@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) writes:
>>As for CBM's patience in releasing 2.0 to the "general" public.  I think that
>>with the next 2.0 update (soon) everyone will be using the same 2.0....and
>>with SCALEABLE fonts!!
>>
>
>What!?  The real live Compugraphic-like scaleable fonts that
OB>were very officially NOT going to be in WB2.0?  The ones that
>AmigaWorld and Amazing wrote wistfully about in dreams about
>Workbench 3?
>
>Are you certain about this?

  I heard they were going to be BITMAP Scalable fonts. In the same
manner high-res pictures are scalable by things like PBM, TAD, etc.
Scaling small fonts slightly bigger will look good, but blowing them up
to full screen will still be chunky. It is still a nice addition IMHO!
CG/Adobe Outline/Vector fonts will probably have to wait awhile.
If you noticed, CBM just posted a job request looking for
'Senior Outline Font programmer.' This most likely means they don't
have one yet and are looking for one.

 Again, what I heard is a rumor. They may actually be CG fonts since 
I heard about BITMAP Scalable fonts back in September with another rumor
that said 'Comodore plans to add CG fonts hopefully in 2.1'. Well its now
January, so who knows?

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>   //  / Thom Cleland                       / It is easier        /
>  //  / tcleland@ucsd.edu                  / to get forgiveness  /
>\X/  / ASOCC * Amiga Users' Group at UCSD / than permission...  /
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