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From: ac3a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Axel Cleeremans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Truetype
Message-ID: <obtEWje00Uh_M2f0Uv@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:36:31 GMT
Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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     Out of curiosity, I installed TrueType on my 6.0.7 cx system. I
didn't like the results that much, and I would like to find out whether
it is because of the way TrueType is or because of something else. I put
the TrueType init in my system folder, and used Suitcase II 1.2.8 to
open the TrueType fonts suitcase. Just to make sure that the things I
comment on below were not due to Suitcase, I later installed the fonts
directly into my system file.
    Here is what I don't like : First, it appears that screen updates
are noticeably slower than with the standard fonts. Scrolling in
WriteNow!, for instance, was annoyingly slower than before. Second, I
could not get text to appear bold on the screen when using Times 10 pt,
or any other TrueType 10 pt font, except for Symbol. The spacing is a
little different, but the characters are not thicker, as they used to be
with the standard fonts. Is this the way it was designed? If yes, then
what happened to WYSIWYG? If no, could somebody explain to me what I
should do to make the fonts work correctly? 

Axel Cleeremans