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In article <1993Jan24.125726.13112@cs.nott.ac.uk>, smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
|> In article <1jph4kINNqur@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig06@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Goetz) writes:
|> >Does the FontManager 2.44 rely on some 'hardware configuration' ?
|> 
|> It's interesting that CC does not supply version 2.44 with any of its software.
|> Even Artworks is supplied with version 2.42 - I doubt if this is for technical
|> reasons, more likely that they would have to pay Acorn more to distribute
|> version 2.44.

Don't know about that, but they really wanted to supply Artworks with Ro3's
font manager.  Acorn wouldn't let them, which is why it needs the FontDraw
module loaded.  Incidentally, there's an interresting bug in Artworks printing
to an Ro2 printer driver (e.g. Turbodrivers) under Ro3:  When printing sideways,
it forgets that Ro2 drivers can at least rotate through 90 degrees, and decides
to render all fonts itself using fontdraw.  If there is any reasonable amount
of text on the page this takes forever!  Generally faster to make shapes on
everythin...


|> Also, can anyone comment on stories that there are RISC OS 3.10 ROM sets
|> in circulation which contain different versions of the FontManager? I
|> have had great trouble printing with my LaserDirect using the built-in
|> fontmanager (not FastText), and have heard that Acorn brought out a
|> newer fontmanager which fixes this problem without telling anybody.
|> 
|> Simon

Seems very unlikely, I don't think Ro3.10 has been altered since April.
Possibly if you acquired some of the EPROMed versions from Acorn before the
release date there would be a difference.


Ian Griffiths