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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems with ATM and LARGE point text
Message-ID: <38424@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 20:37:00 GMT
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ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet writes:

>I just ran across an intersting thing using ATM, and thought that I'd share my
>observation with the net:

>For some reason, at EXTREMELY large point sizes, ATM can't handle it. Using
>FreeHand 2.02, I made 350 point type and then went to Actual Size. While not as
>severe as without ATM, the jaggies were QUITE evident.

That's *not* an ATM problem. At large point sizes, Freehand does it's own
thing and bypasses the font manager (and ATM). Anything larger than about
127 points and Freehand basically turns off ATM -- a case of an application
being too smart for its own good, perhaps.

Anyway, it's a Freehand 'feature', not an ATM bug.

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