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From: lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GDOS / Fonts / EasyDraw Questions
Message-ID: <984@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 88 16:50:45 GMT
References: <2712@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Summary: fonts GDOS Publishing Partner

In article <2712@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes:
> 	  .....
> 	  systems which will work with EasyDraw?  From what I have read,
> 	  Publishing Partner uses GDOS fonts, and there seems to be quite
> 	  a few PD fonts and a PD font editor available for it.  These
> 	  should then work okay for EasyDraw, true?
> 
> tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com  or  uunet!steinmetz!brspyr1!tim	    and I like it!"
> ====================================================		     -- Cameo

No, Publishing Partner does NOT use GDOS, and thank GOD for that.
Deron (author of PP) uses his own scheme for the screen and printer fonts
and has done a very good job.  In PP, one can have say 6 different fonts
loaded, and each font can be used from around 5 pt size to 144 pt size.
All these take up about 30 K of RAM only.  Try that with GDOS (which
practically requires a different file to be loaded for each size) and you
will need a Mega64 ST just to load all these fonts!!

The new PP Professional may be using an even better font scheme (and the
old ones are supposedly upward compatible). Since a few people have asked
me, the upgrade from Publishing Partner 1.?? to Publishing Partner Pro
is $55 (include handling/shipping)
-- 
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