NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/applicat/8473

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From: [e-mail] (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: *REAL* Scalable Font Support for the Amiga?
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Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 19:51:43 PST
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>Its also out of the scope of the printer driver as it is intended in the
>Amiga. A down loadable font is meant to be specific to a printer.
>For using downloadable fonts, software shold be capable of asking the
>printer the availability and resolution it has, and then decide how the
>downloadable font must be. Even though it could have this infotmation from
>the driver self, I guess it would be inpractical.

Done properly, the application shouldn't care.  The driver takes care of it.
The job of the application is to print, the job of the printer driver
is to take the output of the application and use the printer most effectively.

For all its detractors, Windows 3.1 does this very well.

>Another problem I see, is the following situation. Immagine a user with a
>printer A that writes a document with a specific font. When the document is
>used by another user, who has a printer that cant download the font for
>printer A, how is he supposed to print the document? Printer B should then
>use another font or refuse to print?

Again, a common occurance under Windows.  Windows keeps a list of "equivalences
"
when it doesn't have the correct Truetype font.

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Tom Krotchko