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- From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: TrueType for DOS
- Message-ID: <rick.715620200@sundance>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:23:20 GMT
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- drv@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dennis.r.vogel) writes:
-
- >I recently saw a press release-type article on another newsgroup
- >announcing TrueType for DOS from MicroLogic Software.
-
- >Is it shipping? Do any retailers carry it, eg. Egghead?
- >Does anyone have any experience with it? I'd use it mostly
- >with WordPerfect 5.1 but am curious if it would work with
- >other DOS applications. (The article implies it would work
- >only with WP, MS Word and MS Works.)
-
- Something like this needs to do a couple of things. First off, it will
- need to provide rasterization of font outlines for both printer and screen
- (although most DOS programs cannot use bit-mapped screen fonts as they
- work in character, not text, mode). The other thing that it will need
- to do is to provide a new printer description file, or alter an existing
- one. A good guess is that such a program will work with any DOS program
- for which you are willing to write a printer description file that will
- (a) tell you application what fonts are available, and work out such
- mundane things as character spacing, etc., and (b) call the font rasterizer
- at print time to convert the page description into the bit-map image for
- your printer. Easy, right? That is why they will support only a few,
- major apps - it is a lot of work to write this kind of stuff and how
- many more sales will each supported program add? Probably not many
- relative to the programmer and technical support costs they will incur.
-
-
- >Thanks.
-
- >Dennis R. Vogel
- >AT&T Bell Laboratories
- >Middletown, NJ
-