Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!rob From: rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: TrueType on apple.com Message-ID: <1991Mar17.135940.22858@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 13:59:40 GMT References: <1991Mar15.082819.19288@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 38 In article francis@arthur.zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >In article <1991Mar15.082819.19288@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> curfmanm@darkstar.CAS.ORST.EDU (Matthew Curfmanm) writes: > > Today I noticed that Apple posted the TrueType files to their ftp server at > apple.com. There are four file, of which you would need three. > >Now that we can get it, does anybody know if anything goes wrong if >you try to use TrueType and your printer is QuickDraw? Does it get >mapped across properly? The TrueType distribution comes with Apple's version of Courier, Helvetica, Symbol and Times. I'm using TrueType and those fonts, plus ATM 2.0 and the PlusPack Fonts to print to a DeskWriter. No problem with the printing, or the combination of the two INIT's. Of the four fonts supplied with TrueType, my opinion so far is: (1) Helvetica and Times look the same as Adobe's. (2) Symbol seems to be a bit smoother and some of the characters are fancier. (3) I MUCH prefer the Apple version of Courier. The Adobe version kept a "thinness" as it was scaled up, almost as if they were using hairlines to draw the character at any size. The Apple version scales the thickness of the lines as the font size increases, so that it matches characters from other fonts much better. As far as the size goes, there's not much difference. The Apple font file is 524,911 bytes, and the same Adobe fonts total to 518,423 bytes. The advantage of the TrueType fonts is that there are no "extra" files. All of the fonts and styles are stored in a single Font/DA Mover file. The distribution comes with version 4.1 of the Font/DA Mover. By the way, MasterJuggler works fine with the new TrueType font file, and even identifies the fonts as "PostScript" fonts. Robert -- Robert K. Shull rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu chinet!uokmax!rob