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From: morse@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Bryan Morse)
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Subject: Re: TrueType with 6.0.5?
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Date: 22 Mar 91 05:06:01 GMT
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In article <1991Mar18.193735.3487@midway.uchicago.edu> tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes:
>In article <41366@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jyang@barley.Berkeley.EDU (Joel Yang) writes:
>>There is an alert within the TrueType INIT that says "TrueType requires
>>System 6.0.5 or greater" although everywhere else I read says that 6.0.7
>>is needed.  Since I am running 6.0.7, I didn't test 6.0.5 compatibility.
>On my 6.0.5 system, TrueType seems to work OK, but the new LaserWriter
>Chooser file bombs when I try to print.  On the other hand, this may be
>because I don't have a LaserWriter (or AppleTalk, for that matter), but I'd
>like to be able to print PostScript to disk like you could with the old
>driver.
>Then again, maybe I just have a bad copy -- can someone else with my
>same setup or the rough equivalent try it?  (SE/30, 2 MB RAM, 6.0.5...)

On a Plus with 4MB RAM and 6.0.5 TrueType seems to work fine except under
Multifinder.  For some reason, the menu is scrunched (technical term :-))
to about 5 pixels high.  Not very interface-friendly, but it still works.
Anyone know:

1. Why Apple states that 6.0.7 is required?  
   (and enforces it in the installer?)

2. Why this error occurs?  If MBarHeight is getting clobbered, I hate to
   think what else down there is.

Any ideas are welcome.

-- 
Bryan Morse                University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
morse@cs.unc.edu           Department of Computer Science