Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!ucrmath!musial!rhyde From: rhyde@musial.ucr.edu (randy hyde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Printers Message-ID: <12906@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Date: 20 Mar 91 02:16:04 GMT References: Sender: news@ucrmath.ucr.edu Reply-To: rhyde@musial.ucr.edu (randy hyde) Lines: 13 Truetype is an outline font description which is, essentially, an extension to Quickdraw. Other than there is no money in it, there is no reason to believe that Apple couldn't implement truetype on an Apple II as well as the Mac. This is a technical feasibility, I'm not trying to start a rumor. Although` possible to put truetype on an Apple II, I certainly wouldn't expect Apple` to do it. (actually, their response is "We already have, on the Apple II/LC (whoops, Mac II LC!)"). One of truetype's attributes is that it uses quadratics rather than bezier curves. These are quite a bit less computationally intensive. Therefore, it might be possible to put truetype up on an Apple IIgs if you set aside a lot of RAM for cache (so you only have to compute the bit-map once for each character). *** Randy Hyde