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From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
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Date: 12 May 89 14:05:34 GMT
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In article <23868@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lange@cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
>In article <1787@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>>
>>System 7.0 still supports bitmap fonts, and font developers can choose to 
>>use bitmaps at small sizes.  I don't know what will be done to provide 
>>outline fonts for existing Postscript fonts.
>Will bitmap fonts be the standard way for drawing "normal-size" fonts
>(eg 9, 10, 12)?  It seems to me that the mathematical calculations
>for drawing an outline font would take much longer than simply dumping
>a bitmap.  Or is part of 7.0's larger recommended heap size going to
>be used for temporarily storing the bitmaps calculated by the outline,
>so the calculations only have to be done once per font*size*character/session?

I seems to make sense that a caching scheme for the bitmap version of fonts
is in order.  Something like what is done on laser printers.

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