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From: cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: TrueTypes and Bitmaps together?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.202617.28679@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 20:26:17 GMT
References: <1991May29.100330.3042@ulrik.uio.no> <1991May29.144244.18178@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <198@eclectic.COM>
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kenh@eclectic.COM (Ken Hancock) writes:
|In article <1991May29.144244.18178@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
|>Basically, you have to wait for Apple to recreate those fonts in TrueType
|>form.  (Or buy ATM and the Plus Pack, and be done with it.)
|
|Except Apple isn't recreating them.  They're still licensing them through
|type houses.  The current TrueType set, I believe, is licensed through
|Monotype (?).

	One thing you can do is spend $90 or so on 
	AltSys's Metamorphosis, which will convert 
	Type 1 fonts to TrueType outlines.  The results
	aren't quite as nice as hand-converted outlines,
	but they're not bad.

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cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com      C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
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