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From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Help: Font drawing VERY slow in System 7.0
Message-ID: <1071@DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 27 Jun 91 11:18:07 GMT
References: <13309@uwm.edu> <14235@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Jun25.162151.17801@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In <1991Jun25.162151.17801@neon.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:

>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.

The TrueType widths are also wider than some of the ATM fonts (eg: Helvetica
as I found out with a number of FileMaker PRO layouts, designed with ATM under
ystem6 and then shown with wider characters under sys7 TrueType.

>Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)
Andy Dent