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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Fonts for the Stylewriter
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Date: 24 Jun 91 22:28:41 GMT
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In article <1991Jun22.165349.2542@vpnet.chi.il.us> vortex@vpnet.chi.il.us 
(Jason J. Levit) writes:
>   I'm confused about Truetype fonts.  Can the Stylewriter still use
>   other types of fonts, like Adobe, or does it HAVE to use Truetype
>   fonts?

The StyleWriter is a dumb bitmap printer, like a high-resolution 
ImageWriter. This means that all imaging must be done by the Mac, which 
then just tells the StyleWriter which bits to turn black.

The StyleWriter will therefore work with bitmap (screen) fonts, though 
these are likely to look ugly at high resolution; TrueType fonts, which 
the Mac will scale to the appropriate size and which should therefore look 
good; and Adobe fonts if you use Adobe Type Manager (ATM), which should 
also look good. All these types of fonts co-exist nicely; you can mix them 
on the same Mac without trouble.

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