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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: TrueType font support for the GS
Message-ID: <53642@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 91 23:13:12 GMT
References: <3794.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <3794.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> lhaider@pro-nbs.cts.com (Laer Haider) writes:
[About TrueType on the GS]
>[...]
>About TrueType showing up on a Mac, it has.  That's what Apple has
>been working for.  If you compete against the Mac on Apple's bastard
>step-child computer (the Apple II series), you can expect to hear
>from part of Apple's lawyer gastapo force.

I do not know the legal status of the TrueType data format; maybe that
is made clear in the APDA document someone mentioned.

If there are no legal problems, then more power to you.  If you can
make it work on the GS, that's great.

However, a TrueType engine will be computationally intensive, and I will
be very surprised if it can be done at a practical speed on the GS.  More
likely you would want a separate utility to pre-create bit-mapped fonts
in all the sizes you're going to want.

There is no anti-Apple-II-gestapo-lawyer-force.  That's silly.
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