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In article <1457@intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
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>Two problems: price and "average user."  Aside from that, it's a great
>idea, and will most certainly happen.

I'll define average user as someone who knows what fonts basically
are, knows how to install them, doesn't necessary know about ResEdit
and has good command of the basic Macintosh interaction techniques
(clicking, dragging, object-oriented graphics manipulation, etc) (e.g.
can use MacDraw and similar programs easily).

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>Just drawing good-looking letterforms in the first place is hard, though.
>Adding grid-fitting hints can take at least as long, and takes a lot of
>practice. I think that the Apple format will open up the font-design software
>market (giving Fontographer some well-deserved competition), but it won't make
>it "easy" to produce good fonts any more than PostScript makes it "easy" to
>produce good pages, or power steering makes it easy to be a good driver...

I don't think that anyone is attempting to say that just because it
will be easier (ie. have more available tools to help with mechanics)
to use/generate new fonts necessarily means that we will have better
fonts.  However, a person doesn't need a degree in typography or
something to make one either.  My point is that if I bought a bitmap
font library a while ago, regardless of whether the fonts are "good"
or "bad" (in someone's opinion - I'll choose mine since I'm the user),
I would like to have a way to create an outline version to keep up
with the technology.

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