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Article #30787Re: GDOS / Fonts / EasyDraw Questions
From: Lean L. Loh
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1988 16:50
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1988 16:50
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In article <2712@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes:
> .....
> systems which will work with EasyDraw? From what I have read,
> Publishing Partner uses GDOS fonts, and there seems to be quite
> a few PD fonts and a PD font editor available for it. These
> should then work okay for EasyDraw, true?
>
> tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com or uunet!steinmetz!brspyr1!tim and I like it!"
> ==================================================== -- Cameo
No, Publishing Partner does NOT use GDOS, and thank GOD for that.
Deron (author of PP) uses his own scheme for the screen and printer fonts
and has done a very good job. In PP, one can have say 6 different fonts
loaded, and each font can be used from around 5 pt size to 144 pt size.
All these take up about 30 K of RAM only. Try that with GDOS (which
practically requires a different file to be loaded for each size) and you
will need a Mega64 ST just to load all these fonts!!
The new PP Professional may be using an even better font scheme (and the
old ones are supposedly upward compatible). Since a few people have asked
me, the upgrade from Publishing Partner 1.?? to Publishing Partner Pro
is $55 (include handling/shipping)
--
.., the Gods won't mind. CSNET:lean@sbcs.csnet
Gordon Merrick. ARPA:lean%suny-sb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
UUCP:{allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax}!sbcs!lean
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!sri-unix!ctnews!pyramid!prls!philabs!sbcs!lean From: lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GDOS / Fonts / EasyDraw Questions Message-ID: <984@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 23 Feb 88 16:50:45 GMT References: <2712@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 25 Summary: fonts GDOS Publishing Partner