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- From: ballard@ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: No TrueType Fonts in OS/2 2.1 ?!
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:19:21 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- In <1993Jan7.193312.16367@clark.dgim.doc.ca> tennesen@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Andy Tenne-Sens) writes:
-
- >Although Windows 3.1 is a bunch of fixes wrapped in kluges and bound
- >with chewing gum and baling wire, it does give me one thing: Word
- > 2.0.
-
- Word 2.0 runs just fine under Windows 3.0 and under OS/2 2.0. I've
- been using it under OS/2 for over a year.
-
- >I'm disturbed, however, that a recent posting stated that IBM has decided
- >not to support TrueType scalable fonts. Does anyone out there know if
- >this is so?
-
- Don't know.
-
- > Will IBM depend on Adobe for scalable-font capability?
-
- OS/2 2.0 includes ATM for OS/2 *and* ATM for Windows built-in.
-
- >If I run OS/2, will I still be able to use Word for Windows 2.0 and
- >some kind of scalable fonts? Will I still be able to embed equations
- >and graphics into my documents?
-
- ATM scalable font technology works with Word for Windows 2.0 running
- under OS/2 2.0. I can't imaging that it wouldn't work under 2.1.
-
- >If I can't get the full capabilities of Word 2.0 under OS/2, then I stand
- >to lose more than to gain by switching OSs.
-
- You won't lose anything, and you don't need to wait for Windows 3.1
- support in OS/2.
-
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