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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TrueType vs ATM
Message-ID: <0B010004.urztoa@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 01:04:37 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP
Organization: Peirce Software
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The one thing ATM does ALOT better than TrueType is provide support 
for rotated text.

A friend of mine has written a draw program that takes advantage of
ATM's font rotation when it's available.  It is very fast and the
results are superior.

Unfortunately, Apple either doesn't have the support for rotated text
that ATM does or at least hasn't documented it for us lowly programmers
to access.  I really hope it's the latter and not the former - and they
eventually will document the interface.

Until then, ATM still has an edge in this area.

-- michael

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