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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Price Lists, Rumors
Message-ID: <2160@pur-phy>
Date: 20 Apr 89 14:51:45 GMT
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Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
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In article <23349@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) writes:

>System 6.0.4, my rumor source says, is for the upcoming 25 MHz Macs that
>will be announced at the Fall MacWorld.  The feature that Michael
>mentions is probably the new QuickDraw outline font capability.  It is
>running far behind schedule; just turned alpha, and crashes often.  

Wow.  Sounds cool.  But they *are* keeping bitmap fonts around too, right?
I'd hate to see what an outline generated 9 point font would look like.
Still, I definitely think this is the way to go for large fonts, and it
should be helpful for those who have the Imagewriter LQ or the 
Laserwriter SC.  Not to mention that the screen images of headline
type text will look nice.  Hopefully, outline fonts means text at arbitrary
rotation....

-Sho