jdm@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James D Mooney) (05/03/91)
I have been experimenting with the TrueType fonts from apple.com and mac/archive/umich.edu, on both a Mac II and a Mac SE/30, each running System 6.0.5. I keep the fonts in a separate suitcase accessed by the Suitcase DA; this makes it fairly easy to switch between TrueType and bitmapped fonts for experimentation. In general these fonts work OK, but I have observed the following: 1. MacMoney displays reports on the screen using Times (10 pt) for numbers. With bitmapped fonts these numbers are clear and acceptable. With TrueType they are fat, ugly, and poorly spaced to the point of being difficult to read. The column totals, which should be bold, are no longer bold and are even harder to read. 2. In MS Word 4.0 I often use Times 12 pt. Normal copy is fine with TrueType (though updating is somewhat slower). However, the tiny copy used for Print Preview is much worse than before, and even seems to have character positions interchanged on the horizontal line. 3. Attempts to print the apple.com fonts at assorted non-standard sizes from MS Word on a LaserWriter work fine, but the umich fonts produce a PostScript error. The error message is "VMerror (Offending Command: 10)". Has anyone else encountered these problems? Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated. Jim Mooney -- Jim Mooney Dept. of Stat. & Computer Science (304) 293-3607 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 INTERNET: jdm@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu