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Re: Compressing fonts?

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From: bondir
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:31
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In article <1992Jul28.151536.14783@engage.pko.dec.com> davis@gauss.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:
>From: davis@gauss.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
>Subject: Compressing fonts?
>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:19:22 GMT


>Is there any way to effectively compress bitmap, TrueType and PostScript Type
>1 fonts, and still have them be accessible as needed?  I'm running AutoDoubler
>on my system (System 7, IIsi), but it doesn't touch anything in the system
>folder.  I have a lot of fonts on the system, and I want to add still more,
>but they take up lots of disk space.

Suitcase II comes with a utility that compresses bitmap fonts well while 
keeping them open for use.
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