Re: Curious about Pointless - example?

["Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>]

"Joe Kohn" <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:3b28efc4_2@newsfeeds...

> As the distributor of Pointless, I'm not quite sure what it is you hope
> to see. After all, Pointless renders TrueType fonts on screen, and/or on
> paper (when printed)...so in order to see with your own eyes what
> Pointless does...you'd have to look at a IIGS monitor that displayed a TT
> font, or look at a piece of paper that had been printed using TT fonts.

Being new to the IIgs, I foolishly believed one could also use them as
on-screen fonts (outside of a word processor).  Now that I've been
better-educated, I still can see where Pointless adds a lot of value for
those who do word processing-type activities on the IIgs.

> What you're asking for, I think, is to see a bit-mapped font that had been
> converted from a TrueType font using Pointless. But, that kind of defeats
> the whole purpose of Pointless...as once you've used TrueType fonts on a
> IIGS, bit-mapped fonts will seem old fashioned, cumbersome, and to quote
> 'Seven of Nine', irrelevant.

Would the converted bitmap font not be essentially the representation of the
TrueType font at that size rendered "real-time" by Pointless?  Commodore's
AGFA fonts on the Amiga worked in this way - it could generate raster-based
fonts on-the-fly, or let you convert those fonts to bitmap representations
(which looked identical) at specific point sizes that were commonly used to
increase speed.

> Since you sound sceptical, and I'm obviously biased, maybe one of the
> many users of Pointless can tell you how good a TrueType font looks on a
> IIGS.

I'm not skeptical at all - I've read rave reviews on Pointless.  I simply
wanted to see the results for myself - and as soon as I get the AppleTalk
adapter for my ImageWriter II, I plan to print a small document using the
pre-converted fonts the gentleman was kind enough to put together for me to
actually see the results.

(I'm aware I'd get far better results with a better printer, but that isn't
in the cards ATM - this is more of a hobbyist thing.)

Rodney