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Subject: Re: Price Lists, Rumors
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Date: 21 Apr 89 22:54:20 GMT
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In article <2160@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
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>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.
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An outline generated 9 point font could certainly look pretty bad on a
72-dpi monitor.  Suppose you display it on a monitor at, say, 100 dpi,
though, and decent contrast and resolution?

Apple needs to address a lot of the 72-dpi limitations of QuickDraw
if they're to take advantage of higher-res graphic display monitors
and achieve true device independence (as PostScript is capable of
doing).  Obviously this would be a very high-priority item on the
future features checklist...

John Heckendorn
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