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From: lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
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Date: 14 May 89 05:42:36 GMT
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In article <30544@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
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> [Assures that drawing outline fonts will be as fast as drawing
>   the current bitmapped fonts]
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>Keith Rollin  ---  Apple Computer, Inc.  ---  Developer Technical Support


The outline fonts sound great and, to me anyways, are the second most
important feature of 7.0 (next to virtual memory).  However, the fact
that text rotation will not be handled yet is very disturbing.  Text
rotation is, of course, very important for graphics.  And then there's
wrapping text into curves...

It seems like Apple is going to a lot of trouble to build features in
Quickdraw that are already handled by Display Postscript, and taking a
a *long* time to do it.

Why does Apple insist on re-inventing the wheel?  Adobe can't be charging
*that* much for Postscript.  (If they are simply charging too much, then
they would seem to be shooting themselves in the foot).

So why doesn't Apple, like NeXT, use Display Postscript?

Trent Lange

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