Re: Pointless

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <45f4a8$5vp@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>,
Karl Horster <khorster@attila.stevens-tech.edu> wrote:
>	Does Pointless support Adobe Format Truetypes?

   Adobe format truetypes? Not sure what those things are. Adobe
developed Postscript fonts, and so there's Adobe Type 1 Postscript and
Type 3 Postscript fonts in existence. This was an extremely powerful,
but also large format for fonts-- all info on curves is stored as
floating-point numbers.

   TrueType was developed as a small alternative-- the numbers on the
curves is stored as "fixed-point" format: only a certain number of
decimal pts are stored. Then, Apple decided to store the TT font in a
ccertain style on disk, Windoze another. Converters between Type 1 and
TT, as well as Mac TT and Windoze TT exist on Mac and possibly Windoze
boxes.

   Pointless loads and uses Mac-style TT fonts only. If Adobe's been
putting out Mac TT versions of its fonts, then you could copy them over
to the GS and use them with Pointless.

   Bottom line: if the Mac identifies a font as a TrueType font, and
can use it, it'll work on a GS with Pointless. Other TT formats, or
Postscript fonts won't work.

Nathan Mates
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