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- From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (JohnC)
- Subject: Re: the TrueType Blues
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.142243.28908@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
- References: <1992Jul22.075508.41799@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:22:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.075508.41799@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> brnt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- > I own a Mac LC and a Personal LW LS laser printer (TrueType). I also
-
- The Personal LaserWriter LS knows nothing about TrueType. It accepts page
- images from the host computer, not caring how they were composed. (just
- picking a nit)
-
- >do a lot of work with Music Prose. My problem is that MP only comes with
- >screen fonts and type 1 Postscript fonts. I recently had a truetype version of
- >those fonts made so I could avoid bitmapping. This neccessitated removing the
- >resident screen fonts from the MP application so that it would use the
- >TrueType fonts installed in the system.
- > HOWEVER, Music Prose will not run when the TrueType font is installed
-
- The simplest solution would be to purchase Adobe Type Manager (ATM), which
- allows you to use Type 1 fonts on the screen and on non-Postscript printers
- like the LW LS. Also, it is rumored that System 7.1 will have the built-in
- ability to work with Type 1 fonts.
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