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From: kenh@eclectic.COM (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: TrueTypes and Bitmaps together?
Message-ID: <189@eclectic.COM>
Date: 27 May 91 20:01:38 GMT
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In article <2855@public.BTR.COM> brecher@public.BTR.COM (Steve Brecher) writes:
>The default behavior of the Font Manager is to use a bitmap if it is
>available for the specified size; this default can be overridden by the
>application.  Especially in smaller sizes, bitmaps will often look better.
>E.g., Adobe's Helvetica 7 bitmap is much nicer than TrueType's rendering
>of Helvetica 7.

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.

Seriously, Apple, isn't it time to create a toolbox utility for telling
whether high-quality fonts are available?  OutlineAvailable is nice,
but you have to first set outline prefs to false, setup a grafport,
call OutlineAvailable, and then set outline prefs back.  Talk about a
hack...

Ken


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