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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hiding bold/italic fonts?
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Date: 22 Jul 88 16:23:46 GMT
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>Since I made my original posting about hiding fonts, the rather obvious
>thought occurred to me: Why doesn't Adobe distrubute the stylized fonts
>as NFNT resources in the first place?

A couple of reasons:

o While NFNT has been supported for a while, it wasn't until FDAM 3.8 that
  there was an installer that supported it. Unless you've upgraded to 
  System 6.0, you don't have FDAM 3.8. 

o If you buy Adobe fonts, you'll see they still come on 400K MFS disks.

Actually, these two points are aspects of the same thing: compatibility. The
Adobe disks are set up so that anyone on a Mac can make use of them with
standard tools. To upgrade to 800K disks and NFNT's, they would have had to
either write their own installer (most folks, myself included, would not
want to muck with Resedit to get things installed) or find some other way of
getting the bitmaps into the System file. They would also have to either
toss out part of the market or come up with some way of getting the fonts to
folks with 400K disks.

You can argue that folks who are still stuck with 400K disks aren't going to
be spending a lot of money on their Macintoshes, so why bother with them?
You'd be right, too. (I actually saw a book last night that claims that 80%
of Macintoshes now have hard disks attached to them!). At the same time,
though, the 400K disk is a strong statement towards compatibility towards
all Mac's, and that is a good explanation of why they haven't gone to
NFNT's. 

Now, perhaps Adobe could be convinced to upgrade the bitmaps on CompuServe
et all to the new format, so those of us who want them can get to them....


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Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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