Re: TrueType vs. PostScript

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From: Thomas Wolff
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 13:43

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wbogue@cwis.unomaha.edu (Willie Bogue) writes:

> I use a Mac SE w/ 4 megs RAM and a 40 meg hard disk. I print on an HP
> DeskWriter. I'm running System 7.1 and ATM2.03.

> As you probably know, a few fonts come in both Type 1 and TT formats.
> Is one preferable to the other?

Since you only have a 40 MB disk, the main argument against truetype is 
certainly very important for you: it wastes more than twice as much of 
file size than equivalent type 1 fonts. (I don't the Mac, though, it 
might be that thanks to some automatic online compression scheme this 
does not imply waste of the same amount of disk space.)

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