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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
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Date: 14 May 89 17:25:00 GMT
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In article <23908@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lange@cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
>In article <30544@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:

-> [Assures that drawing outline fonts will be as fast as drawing
->   the current bitmapped fonts]

The claimed speed (size and font not specified) is O(100 chars/sec) for
rendering initially.  After that, it's just bitblt time if there is enough
cache.

>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...

On the other hand, the hooks seem to be there.  Apple's font definition is the
first I have seen in which the hints work EVEN WHEN ROTATED!  That was a great
insight, and should lead to great rendering.  The Print Manager has promised
(more or less) to support rotated text at the initial release [well, they said
they are trying "real hard" to get it out].

> [other stuff about Postscript]
>So why doesn't Apple, like NeXT, use Display Postscript?

Why doesn't Adobe change to Apple's format.  It may be better.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)