Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!amdcad!snap!ching From: ching@snap.amd.com (Mike Ching) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Royal Fonts vs. ATM Message-ID: <28729@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 10 Jan 90 02:00:55 GMT References: <844@sahiways.gov.au> <1693@intercon.com> <6265@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <6523@wpi.wpi.edu> <10324@zodiac.ADS.COM> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: ching@snap.AMD.COM (Mike Ching) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 17 In article <6523@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg) writes: >PK> Surely everyone who has invested a great deal of money in Adobe >PK> fonts will want to use both font types. Sure would be nice if >PK> System 7 could display the Adobe fonts. Anyways, nice job Apple! > >According to some reports that i've heard, System 7 MAY support Adobe fonts. >At least Apple is willing to make the effort at doing that... whether this >becomes a reality with the actual release of system 7, who knows... I don't understand this thread. Why won't System 7 display Adobe fonts the same way System 6 does, ie., with bit-mapped screen fonts? Why are people assuming that ATM won't work (or be upgraded to work) with System 7? Why do people equate font technology with Postscript - a page description language? I feel like I must be missing something. mike ching