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- From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
- Subject: Re: Speedo GDOS questions...
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:38:00 GMT
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- In article <7082@tuegate.tue.nl>, wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel) writes:
- >I would like to know what fonts will be included with SpeedoGDOS and if
- >there is going to be a font-editor and/or conversion utility to make
- >vector fonts from bitmapped fonts.
-
- SpeedoGDOS will be using BitStream fonts. You will not need a font-editor,
- since there are well over 1,000 typefaces available commercially. BitStream
- produces fonts used by a large number of Intel-clone software. My father uses
- them quite a lot in label-making programs, DTP programs and the like. (Dad has
- a 286-based system.) Supposedly, there will be a cost for SpeedoGDOS to cover
- the royalties due to BitStream for their font technology and fonts families.
-
- You won't want a font-editor or conversion utility because bitmapped ST fonts
- are too crude when compared to the quality of a true vector font.
-
- -- David Paschall-Zimbel
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