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From: Volker A. Brandt
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:28
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:28
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In article <C18vvE.2Ds@news2.cis.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
>In article <7082@tuegate.tue.nl>, wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel) writes:
>SpeedoGDOS will be using BitStream fonts. You will not need a font-editor,
>since there are well over 1,000 typefaces available commercially.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the reason why I *do* need a font editor.
>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.
You're mixing two different things. I want a font editor because I do not
have a free APL2 font, and I don't want to buy one. I don't care about
bitmapped ST fonts. Also, I think that Speedo GDOS can also handle those.
-- Volker
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!olymp!sfb256!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Re: Speedo GDOS questions... Message-ID: <1993Jan28.182803.27454@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany References: <7082@tuegate.tue.nl> <C18vvE.2Ds@news2.cis.umn.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:28:03 GMT Lines: 20