Re: Royal Fonts vs. ATM

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From: Piper Keairnes
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 01:03

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<1693@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:

>2) Speed.  All the reports from people who have seen the Royal fonts in
>   action are that it is quite amazingly faster than using ATM.

I've seen both and was surprised at the vastly superior performance of System 7.
I didn't seem to notice the delay that ATM has when it builds up a reference to
a character in the point size to be displayed.

>Adobe spokespeople have said publically that they will make ATM compatible
>with System 7.0 once it becomes available.  Goven that, why not use both
>of them?  ATM for fonts from Adobe, and Royal for fonts from Apple?

Surely everyone who has invested a great deal of money in Adobe fonts will want
to use both font types. Sure would be nice if System 7 could display the Adobe
fonts. Anyways, nice job Apple!

>I mean, just because we have an email connection doesn't mean we've thrown
>out our FAX machine...

Exactly!

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From: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
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