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From: tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: HC 2.0 & TrueType: SLOW?
Message-ID: <1991May19.202407.10132@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 May 91 20:24:07 GMT
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I recently installed TrueType on my SE/30, and set about changing many of the
fonts in my HyperCard stacks to TT fonts in preparation for System 7.
However, I've found that this slows screen updating in HyperCard to a complete
crawl; a stack that once could show 3-4 cards per second, now takes 3-4
seconds per card to traverse.  (Each card had some 36 pt Courier, some 24
pt Helvetica, some 14 pt Helvetica Bold, and some 14 pt Times.)

What I am wondering is, can this slowdown by eliminated by giving HC a larger
memory partition, or by having more free Multifinder memory?  I have only have
2MB RAM, so I can't test this out by myself (no room).

My other question about TrueType is, is it possible to use the TrueType version
of a font simultaneously with some of its bitmaps?  i.e., can one install
the Times TT font, and then install a 14 point Times bitmap, so whenever
you need that font in that size, you can bypass TrueType for extra speed?  If
so, how careful to you need to be about font ID's and so forth -- does it
just work, or does it take some tinkering with?

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