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From: graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: TrueType: I want, I want ...
Message-ID: <15576@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 16:40:42 GMT
References: <10786@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: graham@june.cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
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In article <10786@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
>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.

Ahhhggggg. No, no, please don't do this. Hopefully these fonts will
die in the near future, except perhaps for system use. Geneva and New York
are copies of Helvetica and Times, optimized for 72 dpi. Now that you
have TrueType, it will optimize for you, as necessary. Haven't you
ever wondered why "Font Substitution" came into existence?

>
>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.
>
When setting things up, I usually eliminate this possibility, by
eliminating these fonts as choices. For instance, I reset the
preferences on Word to Palatino (or whatever). I make the initial
choices for my users, which suits most of them perfectly well. The
others are taught about fonts and are then allowed to go their own
way, once they've been shown _why_ using these fonts is not a Good Thing.
(Times as a substitute for New York looks even worse than Times 
as itself.)


Steve Graham
graham@isis.ee.washington.edu
(206) 543-8115
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Steve Graham
graham@isis.ee.washington.edu
(206) 543-8115