Re: Speedo GDOS questions...

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From: davidli
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:38

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In article <7082@tuegate.tue.nl>, wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel) writes:
>I would like to know what fonts will be included with SpeedoGDOS and if
>there is going to be a font-editor and/or conversion utility to make
>vector fonts from bitmapped fonts.

SpeedoGDOS will be using BitStream fonts.  You will not need a font-editor,
since there are well over 1,000 typefaces available commercially.  BitStream
produces fonts used by a large number of Intel-clone software.  My father uses
them quite a lot in label-making programs, DTP programs and the like.  (Dad has
a 286-based system.)  Supposedly, there will be a cost for SpeedoGDOS to cover
the royalties due to BitStream for their font technology and fonts families.

You won't want a font-editor or conversion utility because bitmapped ST fonts
are too crude when compared to the quality of a true vector font.

-- David Paschall-Zimbel

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