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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: ATF type converter ATM==> TrueType
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Date: 20 Jun 91 03:13:56 GMT
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In article <3997@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>, kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl) writes:
> For one, I noticed TrueType was *much* slower than ATM, esp. during
> printing on my Deskwriter.

I've found exactly the opposite, when I used Apple's Helvetica, Times, Symbol
and Courier TT fonts against their Postscript equivalents for ATM.

> The result on paper was almost equal for ATM and TT, when I selected
> fontsizes larger than 11 points. The TrueType result degraded for
> sizes smaller or equal to 10 point:

This is because the hinting for Postscript doesn't translate easily to TT.
A real TT font looks as good or better at smaller sizes than the ATM-generated
fonts, IMHO.

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