Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!patten From: patten@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Michael Patten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: TrueType on apple.com Message-ID: <11992@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 23:12:54 GMT References: <1991Mar15.082819.19288@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991Mar17.135940.22858@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 50 In article <1991Mar17.135940.22858@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull) writes: >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. I just downloaded all the pieces from apple.com so that I could play with TrueType and see if I liked it. So far, I am very impressed with how TrueType fonts appear on the screen. I agree that the symbols font looks nicer than the Adobe version. However... If you are one of the people like myself who are hooked into a Unix system via a terminal server, there are a couple of major drawbacks to the new LaserWriter6.1 driver and TrueType. The new LaserWriter driver has a radio button that allows you to select a dump to a PostScript file (hurrah! about time!). However, the command-K and command-F options no longer work. So the dumped PostScript file always has the LaserPrep file stuck onto the front (there is no longer a real LaserPrep file), adding another 30K to your upload overhead. Also, the LaserWriters on our terminal server network do not know about TrueType fonts. So the dumped PostScript file grows to huge proportions (like 300K for a 5K document) since the TrueType font information must be sent with the PostScript file. This is a very major drawback for those of us stuck on Unix systems. TrueType looks very nice. But I'm afraid I can't handle the huge upload overhead to actually use it. Am I missing anything that would make life easier? Or is this going to be a fatal problem for people like me on Unix systems? Brian Patten *************************************************************************** patten@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu "McIntosh Jr. The Power to Institute for Astronomy Crush the Other Kids" University of Hawaii at Manoa SNL Mock Commercial ***************************************************************************