Re: pointless pointers?

[taob@r-node.gts.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1992Dec17.175728.4676@memstvx1.memst.edu> ustai@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>
>quality (etc etc) and now have this great urge to find lots of TrueType fonts. 

    The ccosun.caltech.edu FTP site has quite a good selection of them in
ShrinkIt format.  Some are in the pub/apple2/system/fonts/truetype directory
(the pathname might not be totally correct) and some are in the new Apple II
uploads directory.

>Any pointers and tips on converting Mac/IBM ones to my GS?  (Please don't tell
>me it's in the faq, please, pretty please?)

    Mac Truetypes = GS Truetypes.  You can even load them into Pointless
straight off an HFS floppy.  Of course, it's always better to copy them over
to your hard drive first.  There's a PD utility called TTConvert on the Mac
which will turn Windows 3.1 Truetype fonts (.TTF extension) into Macintosh
suitcases which then can be brought over to the GS.

>	Anyway, in one of my tests, using courier, part of one letter
>"infringed" on another letter (separated by a space), using a 12 point size. 

    Never happened to me in 1.01, and I haven't used Courier with 2.0 yet.
It doesn't happen with other fonts though (not to say Pointless isn't entirely
free of bugs... is there a 2.0.1?)
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