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Article #1247Re: Macintosh page composition programs
From: Gary L. Crum
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1989 08:44
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1989 08:44
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But but but, what about kerning? The "student" version of Xpress I used at the University of Utah didn't seem to do automatic kerning as Pagemaker seems to, albeit Xpress had a painful manual kerning option. Does either utilize the PostScript kshow operator? This brings up a higher-level philosophical point. Shouldn't fonts be distributed with kern tables created by type designers? I don't think kern tables of any sort come with the Adobe fonts. Correct me if I am wrong! I was rather surprised when I found that even the demanding aesthetic taste of Steve Jobs tolerated the omission of kerning. I expected NeXT software to use kshow with pretty kerned characters exclusively. But then, I expected the NeXT DPS server to anti-alias outline edges as well. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised when we receive release 0.9. Gary Crum Southern Cal
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!oberon!lipari.usc.edu!crum From: crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next,comp.fonts Subject: Re: Macintosh page composition programs Keywords: Quark Xpress, Aldus Pagemaker Message-ID: <15700@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 7 Mar 89 08:44:43 GMT References: <530@h-three.UUCP> <26710@apple.Apple.COM> <4924@mnetor.UUCP> <1441@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Lines: 17