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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: StyleWriter printer
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Date: 3 Apr 91 22:39:53 GMT
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In article <1991Apr03.211052.16964@hoss.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) writes:
>I saw an ad for the new StyleWriter in the Daily Nebraskan, a campus
>publication, and went to take a look at it.  Its a page feed printer,
>very small footprint, and costs just a little more than an ImageWriter II.
>I am tempted to get it, but I am wondering about compatibility with an
>Apple IIgs.  

	Good for you to be worried, as it won't work with the GS, 
as of NOW. Apparently either some dealers or people at Apple have said that
there will be drivers in the fall. [Why the hell does everything lag at
least 6 months behind when the software's been available for the Mac for
eons???]

	Not that I'm not grateful, as I am really waiting for the drivers,
because this is a really inexpensive printer that sounds like it outputs
really high quality printouts.

	I believe I am correct in saying that the Stylewriter works
internally with scaled fonts [i.e. it does the scaling itself?] The 
fonts that are scaled are not pixel representations as they are in 
current GS and most Mac fonts, but they are OUTLINE fonts, outlined with
a bunch of equations, where you can plug a number in the equations for
the size of the font and the equations will output the outline of the
font.. You color in the outline, and you have a perfectly scaled font.
I believe it uses Bezier curves?  {Boy, I love to use buzzwords I 
learned in my graphics class last quarter}
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