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- From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
- Subject: Re: Uses and Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.022201.17811@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us
- Organization: Trilithon Software
- References: <1992Nov21.212651.19732@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:22:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.212651.19732@netcom.com> pledge@netcom.com (Alan
- McLachlan) writes:
- * Type 2 fonts are stroked fonts (to the best of my memory
- * and used to be used in the old 47 and prev versions of PS
- * but were replaces when ATM came along as its a fill only
- * beast) and not a new type of font for level 2
-
- Item One: the story about Type 2 fonts being stroked fonts
- was an APRIL FOOL JOKE.
-
- Item Two: there may have been some fonts around (Courier
- comes to mind) with PaintType = 1, meaning characters
- were to be stroked. This had nothing to do with the
- FontType key (1 or 3) in any way, shape, or form.
-
- ........ Henry
-