Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!ar4 From: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Royal Fonts vs. ATM Message-ID: <6265@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 9 Jan 90 01:03:42 GMT References: <844@sahiways.gov.au> <1693@intercon.com> Reply-To: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 26 <1693@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: >2) Speed. All the reports from people who have seen the Royal fonts in > action are that it is quite amazingly faster than using ATM. I've seen both and was surprised at the vastly superior performance of System 7. I didn't seem to notice the delay that ATM has when it builds up a reference to a character in the point size to be displayed. >Adobe spokespeople have said publically that they will make ATM compatible >with System 7.0 once it becomes available. Goven that, why not use both >of them? ATM for fonts from Adobe, and Royal for fonts from Apple? Surely everyone who has invested a great deal of money in Adobe fonts will want to use both font types. Sure would be nice if System 7 could display the Adobe fonts. Anyways, nice job Apple! >I mean, just because we have an email connection doesn't mean we've thrown >out our FAX machine... Exactly! +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Piper Keairnes | ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu | General Consultant | | (317) 495-4273 | Macintosh Enthusiast | Purdue Univ. Computing Center | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+