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From: sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: TrueType font support for the GS
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Date: 7 Jun 91 07:00:10 GMT
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dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
>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.

[cut here....]

When I use the Harmonie drivers at 300 dpi (assuming I don't run out of memory
during the rendering) it takes about 15 minutes per page (ROM 01, SyQuest HD,
Apple HS SCSI, Grappler+, Roland 24pin printer). TrueType gives the same sort
of resolution. If TrueType were available AND it gave comparable or superior
results AND the printing time was about the same, I'd at least try it.

Do you call 15 minutes per page 'practical speed'? I don't. The hardware must
be improved.

...that is _not_ a flame on you Dave, so please don't interpret it that way...
it's just the result of printing a page and finding a teensy-weensy (but
significant) error, requiring the page to be reprinted.


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