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From: espen@ikaros.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: TrueTypes and Bitmaps together?
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Date: 29 May 91 10:03:30 GMT
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References:<1991May21.232030.23869@ecst.csuchico.edu> <2855@public.BTR.COM> <189@eclectic.COM>

In article <189@eclectic.COM> kenh@eclectic.COM (Ken Hancock) writes:
> This brings up a related bug in the Mac OS.  Say you have Times 50 point
> installed as well as Times Roman, Italic, Bold, and BI TrueType installed
> as well.  Type some text in 50 point, then italicize it.  What you get
> is QuickDrawed italics, not real Times Italic font.  I assume that
> this is because Apple uses the braindead _RealFont.

This is a really annoying bug, not for exotic sizes like 50 points, but 
for the standard sizes where the installer by default installs bitmap 
fonts for you.  Does this mean I have to throw out all the  bitmap 
versions of e.g. Times to get access to the Times TrueType Italics fonts?

It was also annoying that the Installer replaced my (Adobe bitmap) 
Palatino fonts, which also made Palatino Italics show up as 
QuickDraw-slanted Palatino.  Guess I'll throw them away and put back the 
Adobe version.

On the other hand, I notice that Helvetica Narrow works again (it stopped 
working with the introduction of Sys. 6.0.4!), which means I don't have to 
reboot the machine with 6.0.3 to get some old documents with Helvetica 
Narrow in their graphichs printed!!

BUT, what I really would like would be TrueType versions of all the 
standard LaserWriter fonts.  Do I have to BUY them?  Why don't Apple 
supply real screen support for the fonts that are in their printers??  
Anyway - is there a way I could do this by myself - extract the fonts out 
of the printer and convert them to TrueType?

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Espen J. Vestre                 
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo
P.o. Box 1053 Blindern
N-0316 OSLO 3
NORWAY                            espen@ikaros.uio.no
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