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That's VERY interesting, and certainly makes sense for programs like 
Filemaker and Visio, where fonts are used simply to display text. I 
wonder if it's equally true for programs like embroidery applications 
who's primary font use is essentially to convert the outlines to a 
completely different format. The only way they could use the operating 
environment's rendering engine would be to take the output and 
internally auto-trace it.

I think it's much more likely that they interpret the outline data 
itself and do their own rendering. The ttf-only requirement is 
pervasive across every embroidery application that has such a 
function. Although there are some 'families' of applications that use 
common libraries, there are also a half-dozen or so radically 
different programs that all work only with truetype. Off-hand, I 
forget what they are, but I remember that there are a couple of 
applications other than embroidery that do a similar function and also 
use only TT fonts.

On the other hand, I've been wrong before :)

  - Herb