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Subject: Re: Fonts
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 03:05:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 03:05:16 1987
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In article <8846@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (Gerard Lachac) writes:
>I have an idea to fling out to all the hackers.
>
>Does anyone have any info/idea/desire to write a font converter from the 
>Mac --> Amiga??  There are some nice Mac fonts available.  Is this a
>feasable quest????
>
>	"Isn't fun the best thing to have?"
>
>			lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu

I don't want anybody to think that we can just go and get the Mac fonts and
be happy with them.  There is alot to the Mac fonts and when we finally get
them on the Amiga I don't just want to see a bit-mapped image.  I want to be
able to use them they way they were ment to be used!  Driving laser printers,
rescaling to new point sizes.  Postscript city!

{calming down}

   Not that I don't like the current use of fonts on the Amiga, the Mac had
meger beginnings also.  Amiga did a really wonderful thing with their setup.
They looked at the Mac and said "What did they screw up that we can do right!"
So, Amiga can use _Any_ printer (almost) and _Any_ monitor (again), and you
can drop any combination of 3rd party memory boards in and they work out
who fits where... etc... etc... the list of amazing thing goes on and on.
But dammit!  I sat down at an Epson Laser printer today and tried to print
from Page Setter to the laser printer and 20 minutes later nothing had come
out (sort of the same speed my MX-80 goes at with Page Setter).  I want to
be able to use all sorts of goofy fonts and print up a really noisy page
and have it print _quickly_ for me (the one thing that the Amiga never has
done).  

{realizing what computer I am talking about}

   Ok, ok... Desktop publishing is for the Mac World, they have it all tied
up.  Fonts on the Amiga are for video graphics.  Well, I just keep looking
at that NEWS operating system from SUN and wonder how out in the cold we
may be.  Well, at least we are sort of on the band wagon, I have seen some
products for the Amiga that are PostScript.  At least Commodore  (I no longer
say "Amiga", I don't think there is anyone still there saying "he means us!")
isn't coming out with a computer mounted on a cheap laser writer, like Atari
is.  Instead, more and more printers that support the Amiga's way of doing
things (bold face, then italic, but not Helvetica) are coming out in the
higher quality (24 pin, Laser).

   Some day we will page publish on the Amiga, and we will be able to do
real color graphic art (too bad "superbitmap" is only 1024 x 1024) full
page 300 dpi color separations, and be able to see the color on the screen
because of the Amigas great color chip.  In the mean time, back to DVideo.
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