Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Printers Message-ID: <13582@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 19 Mar 91 11:20:44 GMT References: Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 17 In article kimbrennan@gnh-starport.cts.com (Kim Brennan) writes: >it. Currently there are none. It uses Apple's new Truetype font technology (a >different word for something that closely resembles...but is NOT the same as >Quickdraw). Truetype is currently available only for the Mac line of computers. Isn't the Truetype font technology the "describe a font by an algorithm rather than a pixel organization" idea? There's a more generic term for that but I can't recall it. OUTLINE fonts.. that's it I believe.. Isn't that what Truetype fonts are? Outline fonts.. And the outlines are equations defining the outline of the fonts.. And when you scale fonts it does the correct mumbo jumbo to the algorithms and then figures out which dots should be lit? --