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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: TrueType on GS and PostScript problem on AWGS
Message-ID: <53809@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 91 20:07:16 GMT
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In article <3300@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> hackett@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (MICHAEL HACKETT) writes:
>The main problem right now, as mentioned in
>earlier posts, is that the Font Manager, at this time, will not accept
>bitmaps that are larger than 32K.  This would not likely be a problem for
>screen fonts, but when printing, larger font sizes are needed.

This is untrue.  Starting with 5.0, the Font Manager can deal with any font
size (up to, theoretically, 16 MB).  The limitation now is that font sizes
are bytes, so you can't go bigger than 255 "points."

5.0.x does have a Font Manager bug where the Font Manager can't _load_ a
font _file_ that's bigger than _64K_ (wow, three underlines in one sentence),
but that's an entirely different animal.  If you can build a font larger than
64K in memory, the Font Manager and QuickDraw will be happy to use it.
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