vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (09/27/89)
One other item of interest that I picked up from one of the articles
on the font wars; a representative from Linotype AG announced that his
company would support all three major formats, and said, "We are
producing 30 new typefaces a month now, and have licensed a full set
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of fonts to Apple's System 7.".
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This implies to me that when Apple ships System 7, we'll be getting
more than just a minimal sets of fonts (i.e. more than just Times,
Helvetica, Symbol, Courier). Of course, I suppose there's a lot of
room for argument as to what constitutes a "full set".
Also, I wonder what will become of all of those old Apple bitmap fonts
that we have come to know and love (i.e. Geneva, Los Angeles, Cairo,
New York, London, etc.) At the Mac Expo, an Apple engineer
demonstrating the outline font software showed an outline version of
San Francisco that he had done, basically just for laughs. I wonder
if the others will get converted as well.
Can anyone from Apple shed any light on exactly what fonts we can
expect to be included with System 7 (or at least how many)?
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Mark Vita vita@crd.ge.com
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Schenectady, NYpeter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) (09/28/89)
vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com writes: >Also, I wonder what will become of all of those old Apple bitmap fonts >that we have come to know and love (i.e. Geneva, Los Angeles, Cairo, >New York, London, etc.) I'll tell you what will happen to them here--they'll keep right on being used. We have 20+ Macs in our lab (SEs) and there are several smaller labs around campus as well as many offices set up with Pluses and SEs. Do you realise the cost involved in upgrading 20+ Macs to be able to run the system 7.0 software--20 memory upgrades and 20 floppy drive upgrades. I can't picture it happening before 1991--the boss just won't go for it. I had to spend my own $$$ to get extra memory for my own office Mac II. I know other universities in the area will take the exact same approach. -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!cs.dal.ca!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter@AcadiaU.CA