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From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fonts on the Amiga
Message-ID: <1724@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 13:10:37 GMT
References: <3107@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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From article <3107@gryphon.CTS.COM>, by richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton):
" In article <8804010614.AA01418@jade.berkeley.edu> SLMYQ@USU.BITNET writes:
" >Speaking of fonts, how about vectored fonts?
" >
" >                                        Just a point to ponder...
" 
" Whole new ball of wax. I am concerned at this point with trying to get the
" amiga system software to support the fonts we have now.
" ...

You might be interested to know that my "hershtools" programs from
comp.sources.unix will produce vector font data in Amiga compatible
assembly language from the Hershey data base.  I tried out some fonts
produced this way in my PostScript interpreter, but the display is
quite slow for all but the simplest characters.

	Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu