mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) (02/26/90)
if you've tried installing other adobe fonts on the next, you quickly
discover why they include bitmap versions of the standard fonts -- DPS
does a miserable job of rendering characters smaller than 36 points
from splines. although i haven't played with it, everything i've
heard about adobe's new type manager for the mac suggests that it does
much better at displaying, say, a 10 point font *without* bitmaps (one
of its marketing claims is that you can save disk space by throwing
out all your bitmap fonts). why can't the next machine do as well?
will this improved technology be included with future versions of DPS?
--
.mike.