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- From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Compressing fonts?
- Message-ID: <63005@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:10:32 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne) writes:
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- >Try this: get suitcase II, and create several different suitcases filled
- >with various types of fonts. For example, make a suitcase of business fonts,
- >fun fonts, fancy fonts, etc. Autodoubler should compress those. Then, you
- >can only open up whateer suitcase you want depending on what type of work
- >you have to do.
-
- This is not a good idea, since any time a file is opened it is automatically
- decompressed by AutoDoubler, thereby negating any usefulness of compression.
-
- Suitcase II's compression will compress bitmaps quite well and decompress the
- individual font size's bitmap on the fly, leaving all bitmaps in a compressed
- state on your hd. Suitcase's utility also compresses TrueType fonts, however
- not with the same degree of compression as with bitmaps due to the makeup of
- the TT data.
-
- Type 1 fonts are almost completely uncompressable since they are encrypted.
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