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From: kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Help: Font drawing VERY slow in System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.162151.17801@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 16:21:51 GMT
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rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:

>There should not be a problem with having both bitmap and TrueType 
>versions of fonts in your System. The system will use a bitmap whenever 
>one is available in exactly the correct size, and the TrueType versions 
>otherwise.

True up to a point.  The character width metrics of the bitmaps are NOT the
same as the width metrics of the corresponding size of TrueType font (e.g.
if the bit maps were not installed).  This can have interesting effects.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)