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From: nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TrueType on apple.com
Message-ID: <7022@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 18:31:39 GMT
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> The TrueType distribution comes with Apple's version of Courier, Helvetica,
> Symbol and Times.
> ...
> 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.

Well, this is perhaps a bit misleading.  Apple does not supply italic
or bold italic variants of Courier and Helvetica.  "Italic" (oblique
is a better word) variants look fine on the screen and printed.
Perhaps someone familiar with TrueType could tell us if there are
standard builtin algorithms for italic, bold, outline, etc.

For you equation writers out there, the TT Symbol font can be printed
in bold even though no bold variant is supplied.  Finally, I can write
things like r X omega and have them look like they should.

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