Re: Adobe Type Manager

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From: David Hull
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 02:06

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I just got ATM and it only took me about 5 minutes to figure out that
it doesn't do what I want most: produce good looking type for screen
preview at small sizes (11 point, for example).  In fact, ATM-generated
type at 11 points doesn't look appreciably better than that produced by
QuickDraw scaling.  (Large sizes look great, though).

My question is, would it be possible for ATM to produce grey-scale fonts?

I think that QuickDraw has to convert 1 bit fonts to the depth of the
screen anyway, before it can blit them onto the screen.  Doesn't the
Mac II ROM contain multi-bit versions of Chicago, just so that
conversion doesn't have to be done?

Here's hoping for version 1.1.

-David Hull

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From: david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull)
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Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Keywords: grayscale fonts
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Date: 27 Oct 89 02:06:38 GMT
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