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From: steve@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PageStream?
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Date: 20 Dec 88 08:25:06 GMT
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stowe@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (holly) writes:
>We got Calamus in on Monday.  It seems to be absolutely amazing.
>It's $100 more than PageStream, however.  Personally, from our
>first uses, it appears to be worth the price difference.  I would
>like to see more fonts.  They are coming, we hear.

 
What I have read suggests that Calamus uses vector-scaled fonts. The key
question is: Whose fonts? Real fonts, or some amateur crud? (I regard the GEM
fonts that I've seen so far as thoroughly hideous.)
 
How about DeskSet? I understand that it uses Compugraphic fonts (which were
crud 10 years ago, but have been greatly improved). What about speed of screen
redraws?
 

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