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Article #8863Re: Type 1 -> TrueType
From: Norman Graham
Date: Sat, 04 May 1991 19:32
Date: Sat, 04 May 1991 19:32
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From article <6338@crystal9.UUCP>, by derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa):
> mel@fleet.UUCP (mel) writes:
>> .................. True Type fonts cannot even be rotated.
>
> Have you actually tried this? It would seem that taking the
> word of someone else about something as important as this
> should be investigated prior to publishing.
> --
> = John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group =
Upside: Truetype fonts _can_ be rotated.
Downside: Quickdraw is not yet smart enough to do this.
I suspect that Apple is working on providing Quickdraw support for
text on a path, etc. Heck, we may even see it as early as the first
release of System 8.0 :-).
--
Norman Graham
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