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From: billing@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Wayne Billing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: HC 2.0 & TrueType: SLOW?
Message-ID: <1991May20.050608.22849@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 20 May 91 05:06:08 GMT
References: <1991May19.202407.10132@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In <1991May19.202407.10132@midway.uchicago.edu> tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes:

>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.)

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>---- Seth Tisue                     USMail: c/o Plaster Cramp Press  
>---- (tisu@midway.uchicago.edu)                       P.O. Box 5975
>"Please to be restful.  It is only a few           Chicago IL 60680
>crazies who have from the crazy place outbroken."    --------------

I too am running HC on an SE/30 but I went straight to full System7 and I
haven't noticed any change in screen speed. Just a guess but what you are
seeing may be a side-effect of TrueType under System6.(?!!?)

Just thought I'd let you know. Hope it helps.
Wayne
billing@ccm.UManitoba.CA

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