Re: Curious about Pointless - example?

[Joe Kohn <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid>]

Rodney Hester <rod3@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I'm curious about the actual quality of fonts generated by Pointless -
> anyone feel up to converting Verdana (say 9 or 11 point, whatever works
> well) so that I can take a look at the result?

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Anyone?
 
Joe Kohn
http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko




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