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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Drawing String in a View (Reply Needed ASAP)
Message-ID: <1650@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:57:39 GMT
References: <516@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1991Jun3.164701.9219@svc.portal.com>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun3.164701.9219@svc.portal.com> moose@sv.portal.com writes:
>                            the docs say that a [font set] is faster than a  
>PSselectfont

Really?  But I can think of other reasons to prefer [font set]:
1) selectfont is a DPS extension; you don't want to emit it in a
   printing context.
2) It does the +useFont: for you.

					-=EPS=-