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From: BobR@cup.portal.com (Bob BobR Retelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GDOS
Message-ID: <10500@cup.portal.com>
Date: 26 Oct 88 04:05:35 GMT
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pa1132 comments:
>But G+Plus still does not allow scalable fonts and loading fonts
>individually instead of loading them into memory at only one time....


Very true..!  But this is because of the way GEM does things... surprisingly
enough, it's not Atari's fault this time...  that's the way GEM/GDOS was
designed by Digital Research...
 
Anything which maintains compatibility with GDOS will have the same
shortcomings...  G+PLUS does what GDOS is *supposed* to do, but does it
far more competently...
 
If you've been used to, say... the way Publishing Partner handles fonts..
that is, being able to scale them to *ANY* point size, and load them at
any time, in any order, it may be quite a shock to go to something like
TimeWorks Publisher which uses GDOS...  You get ONLY the point sizes you've
included in your ASSIGN.SYS file, and ONLY get to load them in the
combination specified in that ASSIGN.SYS file... (although with G+PLUS, you
*could* set up several different variations on that file and select among
them...)  This *is not* a criticism of TimeWorks Publisher..!  It's simply
a characteristic of dealing with GDOS... the output from TW Publisher is
VERY GOOD...!

If you're stuck using GDOS, opt for G+PLUS instead...
 
BobR