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From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
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Subject: TrueType: I want, I want ...
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Date: 27 Mar 91 15:56:07 GMT
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I hope that Apple will release TrueType fonts for those most ubiquitious 
fonts: Chicago, Geneva, Monaco and New York. These fonts look good on the 
screen (I would quibble about New York); it would be nice if they could 
look good when printed on high resolution devices without all the double, 
triple, ... font size rigamarole.

And when that day comes - "Death to Font Substitution".

Even before TrueType, the distinction between bitmap fonts and Postscript 
fonts (confused, in the bargin, with font substitution) baffles most of 
the users I support. Now, with TrueType... I hope that Apple will work to 
simplify (from the users point of view) font handling on the Mac. I look 
forward to the day when bitmap only fonts are gone.

Herb Poppe             hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu
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